Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last fortnight crowds appeared stunned and silent, the crowds had disappeared. The people were too busy to stand in crowds. Women were beginning to run trams and busses as men went to the front (during a blackout two streetcars crashed headon, injuring ten passengers). Women sold newspapers and delivered mail. The Nazi uniform all but disappeared from the streets and field grey took its place. The Army had taken over the country...
...editor, Chu Hsin-kung, has received a severed human hand in the mail...
...puking blood behind him; proud of the holdup of Tiflis -20 dead; proud of having the guts to toss bombs from a lamppost at fully armed Cossacks; proud of the holdups on mountain roads; proud of inflaming the doubters (he had his picture painted doing it); proud of the mail-train robbery near Rostov, when he hacked his way through the side of the mailcar and had to jump for it with the train still in motion. Joe Stalin could take it. When his hovel-mates accidentally set fire to some stolen stuff he had hid in the stove...
Ordinarily France's reservists get their call to the colors quietly, by mail. It was so last September, before Munich. This time, Daladier commandeered a fleet of Paris busses and taxicabs, formed them into "bucket brigades" with brushes & paste to plaster Paris after midnight with the neat white posters, bearing the crossed flags of the Republic, which spell Mobilization. Next day, the north and east Paris railroad stations were jammed with scores of thousands of young men, averaging in age about 25 years, some in khaki, some in the old horizon blue, most in civilian clothes with their extra...
Most investment trusts buy securities that they expect to pay dividends and increase in price, and then wait for their hopes to come true. Manhattan's Phoenix Securities Corp., run by a group of hard-headed businessmen (its chairman, bald Wallace Groves, is under indictment in a mail fraud case not connected with Phoenix), favors another technique. It often looks up an anemic corporation, gives it a financial blood transfusion and an infusion of hardheaded management and takes its fee in the form of options on shares that prove valuable if the treatment is a success...