Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nanking last week the Chinese Ministers of Communications, Foreign Affairs, War and Finance met solemnly. Soon it was reported they had cancelled the air mail and passenger contract of the China Airways Federal Inc., U.S.-owned subsidiary of President Clement M. Keys's* Intercontinent Aviation Inc. for "violation of national rights of China and interference with the postal administration...
...have just finished reading an article in your mail column on the possible rejuvenation of the Junior Prom...
Jaunty, cocksure, well-muffled and goggled, Carey Pridham, 29, married, strode over to his Pitcairn Super-Mailwing at Newark, N. J. airport an early morning last week. He opened the mail compartment, chucked in his load of mail, and climbed into the pilot's seat. The Wright Whirlwind, nicely warmed up, was flipping the prop over slowly. The ship trembled in its wheel chocks. He opened up the motor to recheck the steady drone of power that was to carry him to Boston. Mechanically everything was fine. The ship had had its regular inspection the night before. A perfect...
...French islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique; and in South America, in French Guiana. Due to the urgency of Compagnie Generale Aeropostale, a French government-subsidized line running from Buenos Aires to Natal, Brazil, the French government has forbidden NYRBA landing at or flying over French possessions, unless NYRBA carries mail for Aeropostale and gives the latter access to its airports. The U. S. State Department last week was chaffering with the French government on this matter. Watching the situation was not only NYRBA and Aeropostale, but also the German Condor Line which also parallels much of the Aeropostale route...
...operate a fleet of ships to India for the Shipping Board. In 1926 he took into the company two widely known young shipping men: John M. Franklin, whose father heads International Mercantile Marine Co., and Basil Harris. The Line is now negotiating for a trans-Atlantic mail contract between Baltimore and Norfolk and Havre, Hamburg, and Bremen, which calls for five 16-knot steamships. The Roosevelt Line is thus a young man's company, and the accession of Commodore Astor emphasizes this feature. His directorship certainly means added re sources for the Roosevelt Line in its bidding...