Word: mail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most impressive ceremony in the history of the U.S.-Mexican diplomacy. Crowds craned. The press cheered. As if to inaugurate an era of better feeling, President Calles raised the embargo on the purchase of U. S. goods by Mexican Government offices-a retributive measure -and the ban on mail in Mexico from U.S. insurance companies- a ban required by the law which makes foreign companies invest money in Mexico" before doing business there...
...partial glossary of terms with which First Assistant Postmaster General Bartlett will no longer have to cope: beats-mail needing re-addressing or "unknown" bumper-2nd to 4th class cancelling stamp burns-damaged tie sacks clock ("on the" and "off the")-On or off duty decoy-matter mailed to catch crooks graveyard shift-9 p. m. to 5 a. m. green goods-counterfeit money jug (roundhouse)-upright, semicircular case for periodicals logs (trunks)-heavy parcels Mother Hubbard-large sack for paper mail nixie-insufficient address pull-"to pull a case"-to take mail from it reds-registered matter skin...
...mail out an ordinary business letter the cost, in cents...
...subway under one corner of the structure; a redesigned paper storage cavern stretching far under Brooklyn Bridge were bit by bit purchased, made room for and set scientifically in place. Four years this process required. Last week it was completed. In all the years not one edition or one mail train was missed by a paper plant working 24 hours a day to publish a morning and evening newspaper to the sum of 700,000 daily copies...
...Nebraska, a hen which had laid 165 eggs in 165 days laid another egg on the 166th day.† This egg was fitted into a jewel case, sent by air mail to President Coolidge...