Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed a bill creating an air mail flyers' medal of honor; sent it to the Senate...
...well together" but not as to number. While stationed at Nixville, near Verdun, late in 1918 (September or October, I believe), many American and Allied soldiers including the 5th U. S. Division and others in battle around Montfaucon enjoyed the thrill that came from a flight reported (London Daily Mail, Army Edition) to include 310 Allied planes of all kinds and descriptions. First came a wave or "v" formation of seven planes. This was not unusual. Slightly interesting. In a moment, another similar formation- still not too unusual. Within a few minutes, dozens of such formations-the air was full...
Informed by a Daily Mail reporter in London that he had been called an "Erasdan," Baron Strickland (who hurried to England a fortnight ago to consult with Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald) appeared grossly insulted. Being a Catholic himself, he knows what it means to be called an "Erastian...
...burnt matches from the grass every morning. Sightseers would sneak in . . . at night and strike matches to get a better view of the house and gardens, the pool and the tennis court. I used to have to get up at 3:45 every morning to go through all my mail. I had dozens of begging letters. An unfortunate old maid wondered whether I would pay her $50 a month out of the vast sum [$40,000] Mr. Coolidge was to pay me. I even received 18 proposals. There might have been more, but a newspaper published an awful picture...
Milestone. Last fortnight Boeing System completed 10,000,000 mi. of flight with mail, express, passengers over Chicago-San Francisco and Seattle-Los An-geles routes. In three years of service Boeing planes carried 176,000,000 letters, 13,800 passengers. Total night-flying (about 5,000,000 mi.) was more than that of all European nations combined during the same period...