Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cause of development: complaints from rural mail carriers that mud is no respecter of streamlined shapes...
...boost rural buying, Sears had slashed prices an average of 15%, with biggest reductions in dress goods, curtains, blankets, linens, piece goods. That brought Sears' price scale about on a level with Montgomery Ward which cut prices an average of 6% fortnight ago. Apparently the two biggest mail order houses in the land were convinced that retail prices would not rise for some time...
...Government can do in the conduct of business, it is a great argument against, not for, Government Ownership. Witness patronage continued through all the jobs throughout the system. Witness the recent fiasco of a "balanced budget" in the Post Office department, this after the postal rates in first class mail had been raised fifty per cent. Witness the scandals about air-mail contracts. Witness the franking privilege to Congressmen. It is enough to imagine James A. Farley, or his counterpart, running the Pennsylvania Railroad, to vitiate the boast that the Government is yet capable of running a large business...
...answer is not government ownership. The answer is government control. It has worked in Germany for fifty years. The first step should be a complete reorganization of the financial structure of Railroads. Perhaps we could all get our mail sent across the country for two cents if the Post Office were privately owned. Certainly this would be more sensible than Government Ownership of Railroads...
...team emerged defeated from two postal matches held last week. Penn State scored 1353 to the club's 1319, and Norwich won by a score of 1292 to 1263. These two contests were carried on by mail, each team sending its score to the other...