Word: mail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fleet and get a mail contract thrown in." To that effect was the high-pressure sales-talk of the U. S. Shipping Board when it advertised its merchant ships. Lured by the lucrative lagniappe, the United States Lines, the Mississippi Shipping Co. and several other corporations contracted to buy fleets and straightway confidently filed applications for mail contracts. The fleets were handed over promptly, but the mail contracts, purporting to "foster U. S. shipping," lingered...
Last month Postmaster-General Walter Folger Brown, perusing a roseate stock-selling prospectus of the United States Lines, opined that no fostering was needed, withheld its mail contracts. Last week Mr. Brown, finding mail bids of the Mississippi Shipping Co. and other Shipping Board fleet buyers higher than those of competitors, again held back. He begged President Hoover to direct him to reject all pending mail contracts until Congress could decide whether the lagniappe should actually go to Shipping Board buyers, or whether, now that the fleets were sold, the contracts might not be given to lowest bidders as required...
...newspaper business, much less in that peculiar branch of sophisticated criticism that goes by the name of editorial writing. For aside from other considerations, it is the attempt of nearly every modern newspaper to lead rather than to portray public opinion in its editorial columns. The mail, published daily, and consisting of the interested contributions of enthusiastic or irate readers of the editorial columns is sufficient testimony to the diversity of opinion. And, as is obvious, such questions that may have two sides, representing enough partisan interest to evoke comment by mail to the editor of the CRIMSON, will...
...bankers were not carelessly openhanded. Said they, in effect: "You can have all the dollars you need, if you get mail contracts, if you start to build your ships. Show us the prospects of profits. And German bankers must co-operate...
Relatively easy, though not simple, were those stipulations for Dr. Eckener. With passengers, plus air mail, plus ex- press, Zeppelins can be made to pay handsomely he thinks. He tightened his tie, which slips loose on his thick neck, looked at his Manhattan timepiece (he carries three watches, showing Friedrichshafen. Greenwich and New York time), arched his mephistophelian brows, and hastened to the first Hamburg-American liner available for Hamburg. A Hamburg-American it had to be, for that company aided Graf Zeppelin in her world flight. The first boat was the slow New York, which takes ten days...