Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public golf course at Kansas City, Mo., last week, Federal detectives picked up three players, identified two of them, Thomas Holden and Francis L. Keating, as mail-train robbers who escaped from Leavenworth two years ago; a third, John Brown, as one of the men who held up the Citizens' National Bank at Fort Scott, Kan. last month. Their wives, idly watching the game from a parked car, had guns in their handbags...
...drill-sergeant bearing nor his snapping eyes gave hint of the ignominy in his mission: he was delivering the ship to the U. S. Navy from Friedrichshafen where his Zeppelin Co. had built it as a Reparations payment. Within the silvered hulk was a crew of stolid Germans, a mail cargo, a tabloid edition of Vossische Zeitung, 1,000 toys for Wanamaker's store, a walking doll for the small daughter of a U. S. officer...
...College Board has offices in an old brownstone house near Columbia University. On the door is this warning: ALL BUSINESS WITH CANDIDATES, PARENTS AND TEACHERS IS CONDUCTED BY MAIL. Money or position will not move the Board to release its grades in advance. Every candidate for examinations pays $10, although the actual cost is estimated at $11 per examinee. Last year the Board made some $11,000 selling old examination papers, ended up with a $216 deficit...
...into blustery cold every morning, picked coal at temperatures below freezing and returned tired each evening to their steaming quarters. Their healthiness suggested that drafts, bad weather, or freezing have nothing per se to do with common colds. In the spring the mailman went to the first ship for mail. A few hours later he was sniffling. Next day everybody in Spitsbergen had a cold, which suggested again that the virus which causes colds travels swiftly...
Transatlantic mail & passenger airship service was brought another step nearer when the House passed the Grosser bill providing long-term mail contracts (TIME, March 21). If the bill passes the Senate, which has received a favorable committee report. Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. will begin immediately a building program to provide scheduled service in three years...