Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cook had appeared in Texas as head of a petroleum producers association. His economic theory: "A consolidation of bankrupt companies with dry wells would produce a solvent company with flowing wells." He bought up some 300 dry oil wells, claimed a capitalization of $380,000,000, sold stock by mail. Excerpts from the Cook sales letters: "We say it with cash dividend checks, not with flowers." "Oldfashioned hell is too good for the fake oil promoter, the most contemptible human rodent that ever breathed God's pure air." "We have the greatest oil pool in Texas." Ignorant "investors" lost...
When interviewed yesterday by a CRIMSON representative. Professor Clark was surrounded with boxes of rare specimens of marine zoology, which he was busy sorting and labelling for the Museum. One table was heaped with mail that had collected during his year's absence. The others were covered with various kinds of star-fishes, sea-urchins, a stuffed turtle. Australian boomerangs, and a litter of packing boxes...
...coast line had to deposit $100,000 in a Brazilian bank as security to release four of its planes for service. The planes were impounded because Companhia Empreza de Transortes Aereos, a Brazilian concern, claimed breach of some contract. In the teeth of these tribulations, however, the first air mail from the east coast of South America arrived in Manhattan last week triumphantly carried up by NYRBA...
...other affair was caused by the curiosity of Pilot Cy Bittner, flying west from Albany to Buffalo with an empty mail-ship on the Colonial Western route. He deviated from his route to circle twice over Auburn prison on a clear night last week. Below him, 'tremendous excitement . prevailed. The whole town, citizens, State Police, prison guards, still tense from a frightful, abortive prison rebellion last year (TIME, Aug. 5), believed that some powerful gang was attempting to drop firearms within the prison yard to incite another riot. Machine guns and rifles were turned on the plane...
...Wanamaker had opened branch stores in Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Richmond, Memphis, St. Louis, Louisville, did not continue this experiment in chain-stores because he would not have a business he could not personally supervise. In 1876 he started a mail-order business, was the first U. S. merchant to send buyers abroad. In 1877 he bought the old Grand Depot next to the new City Hall, started...