Word: carriere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...launching of the battleship New York, she was rechristened Saratoga and relegated (though as flagship) to the Asiatic fleet. In the World War she convoyed transports, captured off Ensenada, Mexico, a shipload of German spies and U. S. draft-dodgers. In 1925, when the aircraft carrier Saratoga was launched, the old New York became the Rochester. Remodeled in 1927, she was robbed of one of her funnels. She is now flagship of the special service squadron in the Caribbean, conveyor of U. S. Marines to Haiti and Nicaragua, but she is far out of date, destined soon to be scrapped...
Sirs: Reference to your issue of July 28, under the heading, "Cabinet-2½? stamps." It is surprising to learn that "Postmaster General . . . turned down a proposition from direct mail advertisers who wanted to handle their circulars without putting them to the expense of addressing. . . . Each letter carrier would have been given a bundle with orders to leave one circular at each stop on his route, because that is exactly the way we have been receiving circulars, etc. here in Northern Jersey for at least a year- all kinds of local advertising and political circulars and I recall one from...
...Carrier pigeons fly at about 70 m.p.h., can outspeed most hawks if they see them coming. Army pigeons are now being taught to fly by night...
...last week when he turned down a proposition from direct-mail advertisers who wanted him to handle their circulars without putting them to the expense of addressing. They wanted to dump into any post office great bundles of circulars for which they would pay the usual rates. Each letter carrier would have been given a bundle with orders to leave one circular at each stop on his route. Overburdened postmen would have stooped even lower under this enormous new load. Declared Postmaster General Brown, rejecting the proposal: "There is no provision of law authorizing the acceptance of unaddressed matter...
...then known: in September 1918, U. S. Naval Air Station at Killingholme, England, a N.C. 2, two Liberty-motor flying boat, Curtiss type, built at Naval Aircraft factory, Philadelphia. Four men, oil, fuel, water, armament (machine guns and two bombs), with detonator device fixed, rations and even two carrier pigeons. Total weight: 10,440 Ibs. Flying full-load weight, specially groomed, flew continuously overhead eight hours-record at that time. This experiment was made, and successfully too, for the great effort to bomb Heligoland-Kiel Canal, never attempted due to British opposition. Forty sea planes, mates to above described, were...