Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Royal Mail Submerged. Stormy seas of financial difficulties have long been swamping the once proud & mighty Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. (TIME, Dec. 8). Lord Kylsant is being replaced on the bridge by Walter Runciman; a reorganization is planned. Yet to Royal Mail stock-holders last week brought the stormiest...
Selling waves already had brought Royal Mail securities down to almost nominal values when last week in London the company's counsel gave an alarming opinion? that the company is not limited, that shareholders are liable for Royal Mail debts. Frightened investors began selling the common, which had climbed above £7 last year for ten shillings a share. Down went the price to one shilling. Then an unprecedented thing for so great a company occurred: a large block changed hands at zero. The owner paid the transfer tax, making the sale actually below zero. By the close...
...CRIMSON of Friday, February 13, after which additional names may be added by petition up until the evening of Wednesday, February 18. On Thursday, February 19, the complete list of nominees for all offices of the three classes will be published, after which ballots will be placed in the mail as soon as they can be printed...
...investment idea was financially sound. Rural mail carriers average $2,093 annually, go as high as $4,248. Third class postmasters under whom they work get from $1,100 to $2,000, second class...
...been abandoned for a route via Rio de Janeiro. And Lieut. Clarence H. ("Dutch") Schildhauer, former U. S. Navy flyer, had returned from the U. S. to his post as copilot. The DO-X carried a crew of 13, with 1,100 Ib. of mail (180,000 letters & cards) and six passengers, among them the Portuguese Admiral Gago Coutinho who in 1922 made the first flight from Europe to South America. In happy contrast to the misfortune-dogged jumps from Switzerland to Lisbon, last week's 715-1111. flight to Las Palmas in the Canary Islands was well-favored...