Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next stop for astronomers seeking total solar eclipses: "Tin Can Island" on Oct. 21. This island, Niuafou, one of the Tonga group, is so called because mail is thrown from passing steamers in tin cans which native swimmers gather up. Since "Tin Can Island" is located in the South Pacific volcano belt near Fiji and Samoa, the astronomers may expect their instruments to be shaken by temblors which jostle the island almost daily...
...Representatives. If approved by the Senate, the law will: 1) Change the present unequal compensation to operators from a "per pound" basis, which varies from 78? to $3, to a uniform "per mile" scale, the Postmaster General contracting for a fixed space in each plane; 2) provide for mail contracts with passenger lines, now losing heavily; 3) protect the equities of airmail operators who have pioneered their present lines...
Foreign. Last week Senator McNary of Oregon and Representative Parker of New York offered bills assuring bountiful government aid, including mail subsidies, to U. S. transoceanic dirigible services of the future, according such lines a status similar to the merchant marine...
...distinguished visitors' gallery of the House, or the Peers' gallery if their rank entitled them to that eminence. Noticed in the distinguished jam was Rt. Hon. Montagu Collet Norman, Governor of the Bank of England, and in the packed Peers' gallery Baron Kylsant, chairman of the Royal Mail Line, White Star Line and associated companies, largest shipping combine on earth...
...World's largest in English: the London Daily Mail...