Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next morning shortly after dawn the Houston halted at Hampton Roads to discharge the last batch of official mail, before passing out between Capes Henry and Charles. Ahead lay a long itinerary: a stop at Cap Haitien, so that President Roosevelt could pay a return call on President Vincent of Haiti; another stop at Puerto Rico; and then the three little Virgin Islands which 17 years ago gave up their maiden name, the Danish West Indies, when they were married...
...Dispatch by Scruggs, Vandervoort & Barney Dry Goods Co. That the Macy advertisement would be the last in the U. S. for a long time seemed likely last week when the Post Office Department invoked an old regulation against attaching any merchandise to copies of a publication using second-class mail rates. Even if samples were carried only in city editions, the Post Office would not relent, since the letter of the law states the entire edition of a second-class publication must be uniform...
Vice President Jack Straus of R. H. Macy & Co. : I look for a further concentration of the retail business in big stores and mail order houses. There are probably more jobs to fill than there are trained people to fill them...
Aviatrix Amelia Earhart: I prophesy a great change in the transportation system. . . . Airlines will carry all first class passengers and first class mail. But don't believe too much what the old timers like me tell...
...American Airways Corp. declared a 25? dividend, the first since the system was organized seven years ago. A profit maker since 1931, Pan American boosted its mail, passenger and express traffic 30% for the first six months of this year over last year...