Word: mail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover program opens the Government air mail routes to commercial and private aviators. The Department of Commerce will have additional illumination and landing facilities on the two chief routes within six months, so that postal contracts can be turned over to private concerns to enable them to maintain a more extensive freight and passenger service. The two airways to be immediately developed...
...matter of fact, Mrs. Taft and I gave a luncheon party to ten guests yesterday, and I also went for a long walk. I go for a walk every day and I am going for one as soon as I finish dictating replies to my morning mail...
Last week carpenters, bricklayers, waiters, plasterers, upholsterers, physicians, attorneys, undertakers, mail-carriers, professional singers, church soloists, all stood nattily attired in white trousers and blue coats, sang. The occasion was the Eisteddfod held last week at Swansea, Wales. The mongrel gathering of choristers was the Orpheus male chorus of Cleveland, Ohio, which won first prize from ten other competitors, was declared the greatest male chorus in the world...
...pleasure cars." It is to Henry Ford-and his son-that the U. S. has been looking for its first swarming fleets of aircraft. Extensive experiment was expected to preface the arrival of such fleets, and last week the experimental record, for flights on the Ford freight-and-mail routes between Cleveland, Detroit and Chicago, was announced as follows: Flights attempted .......1,492 Flights completed .......1,467 Miles flown .......295,000 Hours in the air .......3,354 Pounds carried .......1,644,000 Percentage of effectiveness...
Died. Mrs. A. Montgomery Ward, 70, widow of the mail order marketer; at her Chicago home, of heart disease, following heat prostration on a train going through the desert near Yuma, Ariz...