Word: mail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York Telegram and Evening Mail-"It trips the light satiric-and slows down to a grand march away from Home, Sweet Home...
...acquitted last week, after a dramatic trial lasting nearly two weeks before Judge McClintic (of Charleston, W. Va.), sitting in the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, of the charge of bribing, in 1922, a juror in the so-called Durrell-Gregory mail-fraud case. Fallen conducted his own defense, alleged that he was the victim of a far-reaching conspiracy on the part of certain editors and reporters of the New York American, acting under the personal orders of William Randolph Hearst, because he (Fallon) had in his possession the birth certificates...
According to Postmaster General New, the first month's operation of the New York-San Francisco night mail has involved heavy losses; not in ships or mail but in expense as balanced by special revenue-this, in spite of an intensive and nationwide campaign to secure patronage on an adequate scale. The Postmaster General hopes for improvement. If six months' trial shows none, business men may lose the service...
...side of operations, success is remarkable. In the first 31 days of the service 173,910 miles were flown. In spite of cloudbursts, tornados and severe electric storms, average westbound time of 39 hrs. 49 min. and eastbound time of 36 hrs. 21 min. were maintained. The poorest air mail schedule was 30 hours faster than that of the best rail schedule...
...devel- opments in the U. S. There was a continuation and even a deepening of tendencies already recognized. Wheat continued to soar in one of the most sensational recoveries on record. Farmers were cheerful. Rural bankers breathed easier, and bank failures in the West were halted. Mail-order houses, farm implement people and others who sell to farmers reported a distinct turn for the better. North and middle west- ern roads were optimistic because of increased freights, not only of grain going east but heavier farmers' purchases going west. In the Atlantic states, business liquidation seemed about completed, although...