Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spent at hard labor. The first two weeks of his sentence he must sleep on bare boards. For 28 days the man whose champagne suppers were the talk of Mayfair must crush rocks on the stonepile. After that he will be given the slightly less difficult task of making mail bags...
...want to know whether a minister should send in his sermons and his news. Well, I am like the little girl in this modern age. I never wait to be asked. But when you have some news which you think is important don't send it in by mail. Take it to the newspaper offices yourself. Take it right to the editor and give it to him. If he doesn't think it has news value then...
Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown made his appearance before the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce last week the occasion to announce his solution, which he will ask Congress to approve, of the government's air mail subsidy problem...
...operators now are paid so much per pound (67 cents to $3*) for mail actually carried. Most complain they are losing money. Some weeks ago Mr. Brown commanded them to present their complaints to Second Assistant Postmaster General, Warren Irving Glover (TIME, Oct. 21). Mr. Glover closely examined all the operators' books-a sight no man ever had before him. What he learned formed the basis of his superior's solution, which is: to contract with the operators for a certain amount of plane space, whether or not that space is always filled with mail...
Returning from gaily cold Montreal to unusually chilly Washington last week, Warren Irving Glover, Assistant Postmaster General in charge of mail transportation (see p. 68), had a new respect for Canada's aviation enterprise. He had been to Montreal to arrange for two more U. S.-Canadian air mail services and for the passage of Canadian mail through U. S. territory. The existing U. S.-Canadian routes are between Montreal and Albany, Toronto and Buffalo and Vancouver and Seattle. Next month a new line will connect Minneapolis-St. Paul to Winnipeg by way of Fargo and Grand Forks...