Word: mail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Angeles for systematic flights, designed to extract all possible information for the commercial exploitation of zeppelins. A round-trip from Lakehurst to the Bermudas last week was but one of a series of carefully planned experiments. It was interesting because, for the first time in U. S. history, mail to foreign countries was carried by air. A brief announcement by the Post-Office Department only a day or two before the Los Angeles sailed brought 2,200 letters, 138 postcards and some registered packages. Roughly, one-fifth of the mail was sent by philatelists, looking to future values...
...officials on board, was in harbor carrying its gigantic mooring mast. The former Navy tanker passed into the open sea to make mooring easier. But heavy winds complicated the problem of mooring, so that, after five hours' hovering flight, it was decided to return without an attempt. The mail was dropped in the Governor's gardens, while disappointed thousands waved goodbye to the airborne visitor...
...Storm in a Mail Box," which has for some time been agitating the Free Citiy of Danzig* (TIME, Jan. 19) and has had sundry repercussions in Poland and Germany, flared up anew...
...cordiality." Critic Taylor's confreres were less rigorous in their estimate of the composition of Composer Taylor. They, in their writings next day, used brave words: "Rich" (The New York Times) ; "Vivid" (The New York Herald-Tribune) ; "Delicate" (The New York American) ; "Tender" (The New York Telegram-Evening Mail) ; "Attractive" (The New York Evening World...
Life blanks, however, must be in the mail today. Lost blanks may be replaced by leaving a note in album box at the Crimson. 1925 Album Committee...