Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These propositions have not been confined to the mail (which would fill a few good-sized mail bags), but sheaves of telegrams and even long distance phone calls have resulted...
...dailies have been bombarding each other with gifts to readers: free insurance, free merchandise, millions of pounds sterling. This year, however, Fleet Street has been the scene of a fight which, for sustained fury, is such as London has never seen before. It involves the four biggest dailies: the Mail, the Express, the Herald and the News-Chronicle. Following a brief gesture toward peace the fight entered a new and fiercer phase fortnight ago. Last week shareholders of the Express, aware that the war was costing their newspaper the staggering sum of ?20,000 per week, asked each other what...
Combatants. The Mail is the late, great Northcliffe's paper, published since his death by his burly, beefy brother Viscount Rothermere and the latter's son, Esmond Harmsworth. The Mail ("For King & Empire") is stodgy, conservative, has its front page filled with advertising, second & third pages full of financial news. For eleven years it held the largest circulation in the world, well over 1,500,000. Longtime runner-up to the Mail is impish Lord Beaverbrook's Express (until this year, 49% owned by Rothermere). The crusading Express is jazzy, sensational, easily readable, packed with shrill headlines...
Another kind of pilot was at the controls of a blazing plane over France one night last week, on the regular Paris-Marseilles mail run. The wireless operator went over the side but the pilot pumped his extinguisher until he had put out the fire. Then he flew on to Lyons; the wireless operator caught up by train...
...Maguire family is keeping a detailed, secret record of Patricia's diet, medicines, treatment, with the thought that they may some day write a book about her. Their house has been deluged with the usual flood of letters (at one time 50 per mail), advice and offers of help from all sorts of people including a Hindu mystic who offered to cure her for ?150 as a first installment. Two people wanted to exhibit Patricia at the Century of Progress. One wanted to build a miniature hospital in the Hall of Science, offered $50 a week plus...