Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same distance north of the Southern Ry. tracks. Santa Claus consists of one rough street, a few frame houses and a general store in the back room of which is a post office. The hamlet's time of fame is Christmas, when to it comes all the childish mail addressed to Santa Claus. Also several thousand persons ship its postmaster their Christmas cards and merchandise with the request that he remail them under the Santa Claus postmark. All this is a lot of bother and expense to the deficit-developing Post Office Department in Washington...
...General Brown was informed that an unknown business house in New York was sending 1,000,000 pieces of Christmas advertising to Santa Claus for remailing. "General" Brown ordered extra men and postal equipment to the village to handle the rush. Then the firm changed its mind, decided to mail from home. Thoroughly annoyed, the Postmaster General last week announced that his department had had enough of this foolishness and that on Jan. 1 the name of the Santa Claus post office would be changed to something more commonplace...
...practical Christian, he is now a mild Socialist. Like Erdman ("Erd") Harris (also Toronto-born), Denton Massey appeals to youth, in a direct, personal manner. The enrolled class now numbers some 2.400, has outgrown four meeting places. Broadcast every Sunday, it is undenominational, open to all men. Radio mail streams in, addressed to "The Reverend-The Doctor-Very Reverend - Leader - The Honorable - Teacher- Lecturer." Though some people find leader Massey's faith-real and sincere as it is- occasionally of the luncheon club order, none questions his influence toward a wholesomely liberal religious movement...
...mail operators, assembled in conference in Washington, were told by the Postmaster General that a "responsible"' company had offered to undertake the daylight flying of all U. S. airmail for 30? per mile. (Present average compensation, about 60? per mile.) He did not name the bidder, but most of the operators guessed it was Motorman Errett Lobban Cord whose Century and Century Pacific Lines fly frequent schedules out of Chicago, and between San Francisco and Los Angeles. In view of the limitation of the offer to daylight flying, the transport men did not take it as a serious threat...
...survey reported in the current issue of Aviation it was estimated that about 5% of the goods now being shipped by other means might be shipped by air if proper facilities were available at rates not more than three times those charged by mail agencies. But many observers believe that one-half of one percent would be a fairer estimate. Two typical concerns which felt that they might save money by shipping by air were White Truck Co. and Packard Motor Car Co., heavy shippers of spare parts. The White company estimated it could reduce its inventory of parts...