Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mailman's umbrella with slotted handle, to clip on the edge of a mail...
...sunbright afternoon last week Imperial Airways' 24-ton, clean-bodied Caribou cleaved a spuming white wake through Southampton harbor, rose and winged northwest on the first flight of her long-planned transatlantic mail service. Three hours later she put in briefly at the Foynes, Eire marine base, rose again trailing a weighted line for a refueling maneuver never before attempted in commercial transport service. Above her silvery-sleek spine flew an ugly, dark-snouted bomber converted into an air-going tanker. At some 500 feet the tanker's ejector flung out a grapnel. It hooked around the Caribou...
Last week all Europe was excited about the propaganda battle between England's Commander Stephen King-Hall and Germany's Paul Joseph Goebbels (TIME, July 31). As Commander King-Hall's fourth letter to his "dear German readers" reached Germany, Britishers received in their morning mail copies of a mimeographed pamphlet entitled News From Germany. Published by Dr. Goebbels' good friend H. R. Hoffmann of Starnberg, News From Germany bears beneath its masthead the motto...
Thus the Yorkshire Post recently summed up one of the most curious phenomena of modern British journalism. A revival of the classic art of pamphleteering, London's newsletters are mimeographed or cheaply printed, distributed by mail to subscribers at home and abroad. Beginning about six years ago, newsletters have grown in circulation and influence until as of last week they were reaching hundreds of thousands of selected readers and had created an international incident...
...valley. Towns were encouraged to build or buy city-owned distributing plants with Government money. TVA transmission lines foliated alongside and over private lines with cheap power, made possible in part at least because TVA paid no taxes,* operated under a rubber capital structure, even sent out its mail postage-free...