Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York, police arrested one Lester David O'Dell for writing a series of threatening letters to the President so persuasively phrased as to get past the secretariat which usually weeds such items out of the Presidential mail bag. In court, Magistrate Irving Ben Cooper recognized Correspondent O'Dell as a crank who had written similar letters to Mayor LaGuardia two years...
Handling over 600,000 pieces of mail a year directed to all corners of the earth is one of the main duties of the Office of the Alumni Directory. It is in this office that all the data about graduates is kept...
During the Tercentenary Year the Alumni Directory Office had to send out more than a million pieces of mail, which is the largest amount that they have had to handle in recent years. One of the largest problems of the Office is making sure that all the information on alumni is up-to-date, and every time that a correction comes in for a graduate's address or occupation, all the file cards that contain his name have to be changed, while new metal plates have to be made for the mechanical files...
...hero, drafted after the Morro Castle fire in 1934 to jack up, the marine inspection service to prevent sea disasters, made a personal inspection of the fire-damaged Berengaria, refused a passenger certificate. Cunard White Star debarked its 319 remaining passengers, angrily sailed its ship away with 650 personnel, mail, freight. Though the fires were labeled "mysterious" and sabotage was hinted, it seemed possible because of her age that defective electric wiring caused the blazes. Said blunt Captain Fried, "I didn't believe she was safe for passengers. . . . She has had two fires recently. Go look at the third...
...York to Houston, Tex., Eastern Air is the fourth biggest U. S. airline and the only major domestic one to make a sizable profit in 1937-$270,000 before income tax deductions. This makes it a choice business property, but North American Aviation found possession embarrassing because the Air Mail Act of 1934 forbids one company both to have airmail contracts and to manufacture airplanes. North American is the only U. S. concern to have gotten away with this since the act passed (by building military planes exclusively) and the Government has been scowling at the situation. Since North American...