Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alarmed at the plight of U. S. birds whose food supply has been buried under deep snow, Audubon Society officials recently went to the Post Office Department with an idea. Last week First Assistant Postmaster General Arch Coleman announced that bird-lovers may mail cracked corn and small grain, to be scattered by rural mail carriers along their routes. Sufficient address: "Mr. & Mrs. Bird...
...refused to turn over collateral put up by his Missouri-Kansas Pipe Line Co. for a loan from a big stockholder. The collateral: bonds, promissory notes, "130 pieces of paper valued at ? each" -presumably shares in receivershipped Mo-Kan. Indicted early last year on a $35,000,000 Federal mail fraud charge. Promoter Parish in 1931 bought the old Presidential steam yacht Mayflower...
...Slater, Mo., Santa Claus. 45, farmer-minister, father of eight, had a lean Christmas, answered all his mail...
Oldtime airmen can recall no factual basis for the episode referred to in Air Mail, an episode which air transport men regard as libelous. Nearest historical approach to the legend is the case of the late "Al" Wilson, Hollywood stunt pilot, who jumped from a spinning Sikorsky bomber, leaving in the ship a man who was manipulating smokepots for a cinema shot. The passenger also wore a 'chute but made no apparent move to jump. The Professional Pilots' Association investigated, concluded that Pilot Wilson had jumped without warning, drummed him out of its ranks. Last September...