Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wrecked amphibian was a Sikorsky S-43, weighed 19,000 lb., had a passenger capacity of 15. A fleet of Navy craft searching the accident area last week found packages of mail, life preservers, cushions, a rug, a container of ice cream. The mail was dried out in a Cristobal bakeshop, forwarded by plane. Small fragments of the Sikorsky scattered over a wide area led P.A.G. officials to believe that it struck the sea at high speed. No bodies were recovered. The passenger list made public last week disclosed that among the victims were two well-known Bureau...
...graduate, Associate of the National Academy of Design, painter of burlesque shows, locomotives, Coney Island. Out of the mass of New Deal art contracts, Artist Marsh has received enough to keep him almost continuously employed for the past three years, his best known murals being narrow panels of unloading mail sacks in Washington's new Post Office...
Because Banker Bickell's passport was in Toronto, Pan American was forced to refuse them. Undismayed, Speculator Smith phoned his great and good friend, Motormaker Errett Lobban Cord, who assured him that an American Airlines mail plane could pick up the passport at Buffalo N. Y. Banker Bickell called his secretary, had a plane chartered to fly the passport there. Next morning the passport arrived at San Francisco without a special delivery stamp. The post office was persuaded to scramble through six sacks of air mail to fish it out. Back at the Pan American offices. Operator Smith...
...first British class papers to reduce its price (in 1930) from twopence to a penny to compete with the popular press. It still has a long way to go to reach the huge figures of the Daily Express (2,162,979), Daily Herald (2,000,000), Daily Mail (1,717,133). But in prestige and influence the Daily Telegraph has come up to rank with its matutinal colleague, the Times, which has 192,000 circulation at twopence...
...knowledge that God was looking out expressly for Harry Patterson. Of this, however, there was abundant proof. He was six feet tall and able to do a man's work when he ran away from his grandpa's farm at 14, his mother having married a mail clerk and gone to live in St. Louis. Thereafter seamen on the world's oceans knew him variously as Curly, Blondy, Highpockets, Spar, Slim and Horseshoes. He got the name Horseshoes from being a scientist with the dice, and he learned to be a scientist from his pal Limo...