Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When she brought him his meals and mail, Jim told her she was "sweet" and "beautiful, & had mighty nice clothes and a pretty voice; Lulu Belle was glad. He said he guessed he'd die in the State's gas chamber; Lulu Belle was heartstricken. He said if only she would help him escape he'd go to church, be a good boy, come back for her in time. Lulu Belle believed...
...Since 1930 airline mail-loads have increased over 100%, passenger-miles 500%, freight and express 1,600%. Airline employment has meanwhile increased 350%, from 3,400 to 12,000, may reach 25,000 by 1943. The industry as a whole can expect to employ at least 97,000, at most...
Chief problem in Centerville is poor dirt roads, which keep a traveling library away, make newspapers and mail late, compel farmers to do their own carrying to market. When Farmer Hand, trucking strawberries, gets stuck in the mud and his strawberries spoil, Centerville's people decide to build a concrete road. Crotchety old Farmer Banks (who is unpopular among Centerville's children because he chases swimmers from his creek) stalls progress by refusing to let his barn be moved out of the way, but finally gives in to avoid accidents at a sharp turn in the road near...
...hurricane 1,000 passengers were flown from Manhattan to Boston alone and perhaps half that number carried from Boston to Manhattan by a combined service of four lines. By this week approximately 60,000 Ibs. of express -serum, clothing, telephone repair apparatus, newspapers-and 57,000 Ibs. of mail had been flown into New England...
Because the successful offensive last spring of Rightist Generalissimo Francisco Franco split Leftist Spain into two parts, mail has since been carried between Valencia and Barcelona chiefly by submarine. Last week in the U. S. arrived copies of the issue of one, two, six and ten peseta "submarine stamps" (see cut), all illustrated with submarines, by which the Leftists have commemorated the fact of their physical division...