Word: carriere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trigonometry and could qualify as a navigator. At Honolulu they parted. There Veteran Harry Pidgeon took Long out on the sea one Sunday afternoon, taught him how to plot his own course. In Hawaii, Long picked up as messmate 69-year-old William Loy, a retired one-eyed mail carrier from Minneapolis. The 3,300 miles to Tahiti were enough for Loy, but there Long shipped on a 15-year-old Tahitian, Timi, who had worked in the film Mutiny on the Bounty...
...fifth of the people of the U. S. want to know where there's a covey of quail, or a good trout hole, who's had a baby, what fresh cow is for sale, or how the road is down river way-they ask the.R. F. D. carrier. He or she (there are 323 shes among 32,988 U. S. rural mail-carriers) also has a good idea of who is going to vote for whom in an election year, and can do a lot toward getting folks to vote this way or that. One of Postmaster General...
First reorganization of a major Class I carrier approved by ICC, this pro-bondholder plan is a far cry from most of those adopted before 1933's amendments to the Federal Bankruptcy Act. Formerly, the practice was for underwriters to get a friendly creditor to bring suit in a friendly court, thus in effect pick their own receiver-who generally favored stockholders over bondholders; often railroads were in as bad shape after reorganization as before. Under Section 77, ICC can insist on its own reorganization terms or rewrite plans originally submitted. ICC accepted almost wholly the trustee...
Having trudged 65,000 miles carrying 283 tons of mail since 1918, Anna McDonald, 45, of Anaconda, Mont., was last week transferred from mail-carrier to a clerical job by the Post Office Department. Anaconda hailed the retirement of "the last woman city mail carrier in the United States...
...prevent a recurrence of the situation that brought about the 1934 Black inquiry, when the Errett Cord interests half-cornered the airmail subsidy of $16.500.000, holding 13 of 26 contracts through mergers and consolidations, the Act forbids mergers, interlocked directorates and subleasing of carrier contracts without consent of the authority...