Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Approved a conference report on the Civil Aviation Bill establishing a Civil Aeronautics Authority to supervise and regulate all phases of civil aviation (except mail routes assigned by the Post Office Department...
...constraint, repression, or fear. Whatever it may be worth, money flows freely. The people are well dressed, well fed, fairly well housed. At parades, reviews, unveilings, cornerstone Mayings, a, busy, eager nation is always on its toes to cheer Mussolini, the King, and the flag, even though every mail box is sealed tight with steel baffles when the two heads of the Empire visit their loyal Milano. Bombs and infernal machines have exploded in these boxes. For ten days preceding Hitler's arrival no parcels will be delivered or handled in the cities he is to visit...
Select Seniors, i.e. those with names in the telephone book, received letters in yesterday's mail offering them opportunities for jobs if they had only $15,000 of $20,00 to invest in such matchless chances as airtight cheese cloth or canned gravy...
Last June Congress abrogated all 31 ocean mail contracts by which the U. S. Government had been subsidizing U. S. shipping at an annual cost of $20,000,000. Under the new Merchant Marine Act the Maritime Commission was empowered to provide "differential" subsidies for U. S. shipping to establish "competitive equality" in foreign trade. By last week eight U. S. shipping companies, having agreed to build 50 new ships in the next six years, had subsidy agreements with the Maritime Commission totalling about...
...companies engaged in foreign commerce, this arrangement meant calm seas ahead. But to lines in domestic coastwise trade it presaged disaster. Those that had mail subsidies lost them, got nothing in return. For those operating between Atlantic and Pacific ports, Panama Canal tolls ate heartily into whatever profit remained. For such companies the choice has been: 1) to transfer ships to foreign trade to be eligible for subsidies, or 2) to founder...