Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...supposed to telephone in case anyone in the family is kidnapped. The Department of Labor has sleuths who track down immigration irregularities, turn up alien wrongdoers. Famed for their relentlessness are the Post Office Department inspectors, prepared to spend a day or a lifetime bringing to justice mail robbers, perpetrators of postal frauds. The Treasury has a bureau of customs to prevent smuggling, a bureau of narcotics to combat dope peddlers. Its income tax intelligence unit ferrets out tax evaders. There are special agents in the Department of Agriculture to investigate violations of the Pure Food & Drugs...
...this point London newspapers took up the story. Both the Optimist and the Jupiter belong to a Zurich firm named the Arksis Aksa Co. formed in 1933 "to foster trade with the Sultanate of Mauretania." London's Daily Mail charged that the real owner of Arksis Aksa Co. is Germany's munitions Tycoon Fritz Thyssen, longtime financial backer of Adolf Hitler. The Optimist was once a dispatch boat, known as the Delphin, for the German navy...
First break in the situation came from potent ($39,000,000) United Aircraft & Transport Corp., whose President Philip G. Johnson announced decision to reorganize in order to bid for future mail rights.* In line with the Administration's wishes, United's big operating unit (United Air Lines) will be divorced from manufacturing subsidiaries (Boeing, Pratt & Whitney, Sikorsky, et al.). In announcing the change President Johnson gravely protested cancellation of his company's mail contracts last February...
Newton D. Baker, former Secretary of War and prominent Cleveland attorney, will head a distinguished special board to investigate the army's tragic experiences in flying the air mail...
Secretary of War George H. Dern today announced Baker's acceptance of chairmanship of the board on which Col. Charles A. Lindbergh refused to serve because he disapproved the cancellation of private air mail contracts...