Word: lasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ocean mail increased 5% over last year, amounted...
...Because the cost of air mail service exceeded the postage revenue by some $7,000,000 last year, thus increasing the department's deficit Postmaster General Brown has called a conference of air mail operators to "readjust" contract rates...
...Last week Postmaster General Brown announced that his department was ready to award ocean mail contracts over 13 approved routes, provided that in return for ten-million-dollar annual contracts, 40 new mail ships, totaling 460,000 tons, be constructed in ten years at a cost of $250,000,000. First objector to this plan was U. S. Lines, Inc., owners of the Leviathan and ten other onetime U. S. Shipping Board vessels, which vould be required to construct eleven new vessels, three of them of the superliner class, at a total cost of $150,000,000 in return...
Perfunctory was the opening last week of the first regular session of the 71st Congress. The Senate sat only seven minutes. Because of bad weather, elder legislators did not bother to attend. First business on the Senate calendar: the Vare case...
...Jersey's best and biggest Republican wigs gathered last week at Atlantic City for a farewell feast to Walter Evans Edge, once their U. S. Senator, now U. S. Ambassador to France. Most memorable remark of the evening: Senator George Higgins Moses' reference to the Senate as ''that contenated order of glorified errand boys." The evening's news: announcement by Governor Morgan Foster Larson that he would appoint Dwight Whitney Morrow, U. S. Ambassador to Mexico, to fill Ambassador Edge's seat in the Senate when Mr. Morrow returns from next month...