Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the Sikorsky 543 is an extremely interesting and valuable airplane it seems to me that-since it carries 16 persons, 1,000 Ib. of mail and express and has a gross weight of 19,000 Ib. and two engines, while the Fairchild carries 10 people, 1,000 Ib. of mail and express and has a gross weight of 9,600 Ib. and only one engine-it should more rightly have been called by you a Mid-Clipper or Youthful Clipper, just to keep the distinction clear...
Gardner Cowles was then 42, with six children and not much money. A small-town banker in Algona, in northern Iowa, he had taught school there, married one of the teachers, made a little money as a contractor in rural mail routes. For a while he edited a local weekly called the Advance. His great & good friend was the rival paper's editor. Harvey Ingham. In 1902 Editor Ingham went to Des Moines to edit the down-at-heel Register & Leader, persuaded his friend Cowles to buy the paper. Price: $300,000. What Mr. Cowles thought he was buying...
Unlike Britain, France, Italy, Germany and many another foreign nation, the U. S. has no direct merchant marine subsidy, aids its shipping men instead with mail contracts and construction loans. Last week, hot on the heels of charges of graft and corruption in the Commerce Department (see p. 9), the Senate committee investigating ocean mail contracts shocked Washington with sizzling charges that U. S. shipping men have fattened fabulously on the public purse...
...Onetime Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown owned 4,000 shares of International Mercantile Marine Corp. stock when he awarded mail contracts to I. M. M.'s United States Lines...
...three, four years past due, weeded them out, put the paper on a cash-in-advance basis. On the theory that men & women are creatures of habit, he concentrated on the problem of getting the Register to them on time. Helped by his oldtime experience as an overland mail contractor. Publisher Cowles studied maps and railroad timetables, learned the location of every town and hamlet in Iowa, memorized the schedules of every train out of Des Moines. As the Register circulation machine began to work, a Register-habit grew steadily throughout the State. At the end of the first year...