Word: mail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Frank Phillips, president of the Phillips Petroleum Co., reported net profits of $4,937,931 (previous year: $21,407,709); pointed to general overproduction of crude oil and gasoline throughout the industry; told that Phillips Nu-Aviation gasoline has been contracted for in Government air mail service...
...received my first copy of TIME in the morning mail...
...Many a bill received President Coolidge's signature during the week-including the Alien Property Bill and the measures to allow Col. Lindbergh to receive foreign decorations, and to authorize the Postmaster-General in letting contracts for air mail to foreign countries...
...curtailment of British rubber production by Parliament under the Stevenson Act. Theoretically this measure was expected to intensify the demand for rubber and consequently raise its price by curtailing the supply. The actual results have been so unsatisfactory that last week a leading British newspaper in Malaya, The Malay Mail, declared: "In many quarters restriction is regarded today as on trial for its life, and unless tangible results are achieved in bringing supply closer to consumption in the near future, the ranks of those prepared to scrap the scheme and give the law of supply and demand free sway...
...Japanese sailors. But though the bill was passed he went on beating Japanese competition. He sent his son Stanley to Washington to bid for five boats the U. S. had built for the War. His bid ($1,125,000 each; one third cash) was more than the Pacific Mail could offer. Stanley wired back...