Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because of the necessity of effecting economics in the local postal system, Harvard men will no longer enjoy the benefits of an afternoon mail delivery on Wednesday. No longer will they spend that afternoon enraptured by the honeyed words of an epistle from "her". In vain will they stand watch by their respective letter boxes waiting for "that" letter. Stern economy has decreed that it shall not come...
...folly to allow small companies to offer their bids. Any man would have been able to buy a few second had planes and submit a bid which would have been lower than those of the larger concerns, but it is certain that the service, dependability, and safety of the mail transportation would have been endangered to a serious extent. Therefore, only large companies were considered and, as a result, American commercial flying today far exceeds that of any other nation...
...Army had been properly trained and furnished with the proper equipment, it should have been able to carry the mail far better than it has. After all!" Mr. Doriot exclaimed, "long bombing and observation fights should have been of sufficient training to the flyers to allow them to transport the mail successfully, and even bad weather is no excuse for the many mishaps which have occurred, for a war would certainly demand flying in bad weather...
...army fliers have crashed to their death since the air mail service was taken out of the hands of the private companies. Yesterday the President ordered all except the most necessary routes to be abandoned until weather conditions and experience permitted the aviation corps to fly them safely. The army planes on all routes slowed up the service so much that large quantities of scheduled air mail were sent by train instead. Finally, the Administration is doing its best to recontract the private companies and relieve the overworked military planes...
...policy of trial and error. His action on the airmail question was obviously wrong, but this was an impetuous move. Roosevelt had had reports from inspectors that the air transport companies were practising all sorts of fraud in the way of putting heavy stones in the mail sacks and weighing them three or four times, and his natural hate of anything underhanded led him to make a move which has had drastic results. Eventually, he will lead the country out of its present difficulties...