Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mail was a letter from Governor Winant accepting his resignation: "I want you to know I respect your desire to accord special privilege...
Scandals. Three financial scandals in two countries further strained British resources. The machinations of Clarence Hatry in London in 1929 ruined hundreds of British investors (TIME, Oct. 21, 1929. et seq.). Baron Kylsant's performances with the Royal Mail Line represented an aggregate loss of some $15,000,000 to little stockholders (TIME. July 29. 1929. et seq.). And the failure of the Banque Oustric in Paris last year burned so many French bankers' fingers that they began to withdraw French gold balances from London. They needed the cash...
...desk last week was as exciting to him as a great fortune. It was the first year's net earning of Ludington Line, plane-per-hour passenger service between New York, Philadelphia & Washington. Moreover, it was the first profit ever shown by a major air service operated without mail contract or subsidy, a profit made in the face of a virtual axiom that no line could make money in passenger business alone...
This procedure was not extraordinary. Mail planes have been catapulted from the Europa and Bremen and from the French Line's lie de France many a time. But never had it been attempted so far from New York. Mail planes heretofore have left ships off Cape Cod, 600 or 700 mi. from port. The Europa was 1.275 mi. out of New York. Six hours after leaving the steamer the seaplane alighted at Sydney, Cape Breton Island, discharged its Canadian mail, refuelled. Then it flew all night down the coast to Bridgeport. Conn., fuelled again, taxied up to the Europa...
Each plane can carry 440 Ib. of mail, but capacity loads are rare. For the special service, letters should be addressed...