Word: mail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only light east on the wreck is that possibly there was an unusual coastal current and that wireless communication was " jammed" on account of attempts to send aid to the Pacific Mail liner Cuba, wrecked a few hours earlier on San Miguel Island, 35 miles away. Arguello Point extends out into the Pacific at the place where the wreck occurred, and it is possible that Commander E. H. Watson, in charge of the destroyer squadron, believed that this Point had been rounded...
Following the admission of the Irish Free State to membership in the League of Nations (TIME, Sept. 17), President Cosgrave returned to Dublin from the assembly in Geneva. Scenes of indescribable enthusiasm took place at Kingstown Harbor. The mail boat on which Mr. Cosgrave traveled was escorted by two Free State craft, four aeroplanes. In the Harbor every ship was gaily decorated with bunting and sounded its siren as the mail steamer hove in sight...
...William P. Nolan, of Jeannette, Pa., discoverer of an alleged cure for tuberculosis based on inhalation of calcium fumes ( TIME, May 12, June 25), was expelled from the Westmoreland County Medical Society for " unethical conduct." Dr. Nolan, according to the American Medical Association, has been selling his "cure" by mail at $100 a shot, although its therapeutic properties have not yet been scientifically verified. Dr. Nolan was present at the meeting, and declared it a " frame-up," with only a handful of the members there. He announced he would continue to promote his cure...
...achieved a complete demonstration of the possibility of refuelling from the air. Twice they received gasoline from a sister ship above them and they even got a nice, hot breakfast on a third aerial contact. The extension of this system of refuelling opens new vistas in aviation. Commercial and mail planes would be able to fly across the continent without having to carry huge supplies...
...four days, in a series of test flights, the Post Office Department conducted a series of transcontinental mail flights. In no case did the aeroplanes carrying mail across the country need more than 30 hours to complete the trip. In one case the trip was made in 26 hours and 9 minutes-41 minutes less than the transcontinental flight record. Of course, the corollary of this attainment was that San Francisco and New York read each other's newspapers hardly more than 24 hours after publication. As the telegraph, cable and wireless have speeded up news transmission to those...