Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tents had the job of frying 100,000 flapjacks for breakfast, of coping with 30,000 quarts of milk, 70,000 eggs, two tons of sugar, 13,000 Ib. of meat delivered every morning and serving it more or less hot to over 800 mess tents. Telephone connections and mail deliveries to the camp sites had to be organized on a similar scale...
...Treasury has, for 20 years, been going from bad to worse. During all that time the bride did little but run up bills. For a number of years she has been going through the pockets of the Treasury for $25,000,000 to $30,000,000 a year in mail subsidies and steadily getting more down at the heel. Today 90% of U. S. merchant ships are over 15 years old and few are able to travel as much as 12 knots. Aside from oil tankers not one seagoing merchant vessel was built in the U. S. last year...
...Kennedy's job included: 1) canceling the old mail subsidies and settling up between the Government and some 40 shipping lines; 2) figuring out a new type of direct subsidy on a businesslike basis and getting the shipping lines to make new contracts. The first required tireless negotiation of claims and counterclaims. The second required Mr. Kennedy to figure out what shipping routes were necessary and reasonably economic to operate so as to be worth subsidizing, and to arrange for the building of enough up-to-date ships by the operators so that they will have a chance...
Having, after 21 years of aggressive propaganda, persuaded Federal courts that it is not illegal to import, sell, ship or mail contraceptive articles "which might intelligently be employed by conscientious and competent physicians for the purpose of saving life or promoting the well-being of their patients...
...interview White and the Post published a story saying, "although Mr. White will not take responsibility of selecting Sheik Imam's wife, he will be glad to make contact with the Arabian for those interested. Mr. White can be reached by telephone at 9-1817 or by mail at Roebuck Springs...