Word: mailbag
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Harry's New York Bar), and Laurence Hills himself (who was a little aghast at it all, except when he added up the profits). The Herald's, legion of homesick readers gladly paid 5? to read its cabled news from New York, its "Letters From the Mailbag" (occasionally staff-written), its classified ads for apartments and friendships, its homey items from Sioux City and Dallas...
Burly, six-foot Henry Ruthvin Smith is one postman who does not go walking on his holidays. After 16 years of lugging a fat mailbag over a regular residential route in Columbia, S. C., even the walking he had to do for the Post Office Department got to be too much. But while other postmen with the same problem met it by foot baths or retirement, Mailman Smith used his head. Last week, with the blessing of the Postmaster General, he was awheel in one of the strangest contraptions that ever carried Uncle Sam's post. Footsore grey-coats...
...station, which was set up on the airport, could just as well have been set up in a pasture, on a building roof or a hilltop, where towns without flying fields will have to set theirs. Between two 40-foot poles, 50 feet apart, stretched a rope with a mailbag attached to it. From the sky one of All-American's Stinsons, trailing a four-pronged hook from its belly on a cable, bore down and passed over the rope between the poles. Out of the Stinson tumbled a bag of Coatesville mail. Neatly, the dangling hook snagged...
...Yorkshire Likes Pluck." As a matter of fact, Scot MacDonald was by no means near the end. Laborite M. P.'s who had deserted him fortnight ago were beginning to feel sheepish. Britons who love a beau geste were deliriously enthusiastic. The Downing Street mailbag was stuffed with telegrams and letters of support, not a few from the U. S. A candy manufacturer sent $5,000 for the Government's emergency fund. An unknown workman sent $6, half his week's pay. From Yorkshire came a pencilled postcard: "Come to Yorkshire and we will find thee...