Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...playing halfback for Harvard. At 74, after 50 years in politics (four terms as mayor, four as a U.S. Representative, one as governor), he had suffered at one time or another from diabetes, arteriosclerosis, hypertension and ingrown eyelashes. He had served two penal sentences (the last, in 1947 for mail fraud) and during his stewardship Boston's debt and high taxes have increased, and its reputation for corruption has not declined...
...attack appeared first in the Oxford undergraduates' own weekly magazine Isis. Then the London Daily Mail picked it up and splashed it into headlines. All in all, it struck proper Oxonians as one of the cheekiest essays in years. As might have been expected, the author was an American-a second-year Rhodes scholar at Magdalen named Eugene Burdick...
...third of the class will be invited each time, through invitations posted in the dormitories. Commuters will receive individual invitations by mail...
...Perle Mesta," reported the Luxembourg correspondent of the London Daily Mail, "is in a fair way to blunder a path into the hearts of the 300,000 people of this microscopic Grand Duchy . . . Impulsive, dictatorial, generous, fussy and friendly, Mrs. Mesta approached her job like the task of arranging a rather large tea-party complicated by the presence of some quaint foreigners . . . The people of Luxembourg are pleased as punch to have her here...
...revenue ton mile down to 36.44?, but according to CAB, they're still above Eastern. Although National wound up fiscal 1949 last June with a piddling $38,963 profit, it earned $866,000 in the last six months of that year, thanks partly to a big boost in mail pay over 1948. On the expectation of continued profits he is buying two new DC-6s and arranging for the lease of three more four-engined planes. When all are in service next year, National will have 14 four-engined aircraft in operation, competing with Rickenbacker's Constellations...