Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Barbara Carroll, 17, had a fine time in South Paris, Me. last week. She sold autographed pictures of the county courthouse for 25? the copy, received stacks of fan mail, including offers of marriage, posed fetchingly in play and bathing suits for innumerable photographs. With some of her tips from photographers for posing, Barbara had her brown hair waved. A climax to Barbara's happy week came when her mother, Ruby, walked up to Francis Carroll, 43, sitting dejected in South Paris' Oxford County Courthouse and impatiently tapped his shoulder...
...popular favorites receive plushy publicity, heavy fan mail, much kudos, little cash. Unwatered by freshets of advertising appropriations, British radio pays its stars out of a sustaining budget, and radio listeners often lose their best performers to the prosperous music halls...
...they made eight flights in 1936, 14 in 1937, and this year they will make 28, two a week, with the Nordmeer, Nordwind and Nordstern, all Hamburg Ha. 1395 with four Diesel engines, a catapult start, and a payload of only 880 Ib. Lufthansa would like to start flying mail any day now, but it has been allowed to use Pan American's sea base at Port Washington only if it waits till Pan American can match it flight for flight...
...French have also flown mail for years across the South Atlantic. For the last year the experimental S. S. Carimare has been dawdling in the middle of the ocean collecting weather information; for the first time Air France Transatlantique (combination of Air France and Compagnie Generale Transatlantique) is on the point of sending planes across the North Atlantic. This month and next, the hulking, 40-ton, six-motored Latecoere Lt. de Vaisseau Paris will make half-a-dozen round trips...
...biggest transport planes in the world) in Seattle, Wash. Unlike the English Composites and the German Catapults, the Pan American Clipper will heave itself out of the water on its own power. But until it or some other U. S. plane is ready to start a regular schedule, no mail, no passengers, will be flown across the North Atlantic by anyone else...