Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most important division in the anti-pest laboratory is that of Moths & Flies. From outsiders with anti-moth ideas it is already being flooded with more telephone calls and mail than its staff members have time to answer. Most commercial moth repellents are fluorine compounds or cinchona alkaloids of the quinine family. At the Du Pont laboratory, experiments have been carried on with these and scores of other chemicals. What they hope to find eventually is a moth-killer which will impregnate a fabric like dye, will not be removed by washing or dry-cleaning. Moths eat almost any animal...
According to Colonel Johnson, the Post Office will soon invite bids for four transatlantic mail flights a week. Route in summer will be from Ireland across the Atlantic to the big new airport near Botwood, Newfoundland (TIME, March 1), where it will split into two legs, one going straight down the coast to New York with a stop at Shediac, N. B., the other to Montreal and then down the Hudson Valley to New York. In winter the planes will fly via the Azores and Bermuda...
Wilbur Burton Foshay, whose $50,000,000 Northwestern utilities empire ranked second only to Samuel Insult's, was released from Leavenworth Penitentiary after serving five years of a 15-year term for mail fraud, straggled home to Minneapolis to look for a job, had to ask permis-ion to step on the African mahogany floors in his former office in the Foshay Tower. "Rebuild my empire? God. man, how can I?" moaned he. "I haven't a penny. Not one red cent...
...trivial, however, is the Colonel's statement that in distributing their cards the malefactors violated a Federal Postal Regulation, which prohibits the placing of such material in University mailboxes without its first having been postmarked and sent through the regular mail channels...
...bleak night last December eight men flying north from Charleston, S. C. were strapped in their seats in an Eastern Air Lines transport, undisturbed by the rough air because their pilot was famed Henry Tindall ("Dick") Merrill, whose exploits, besides flying U. S. mail in a bathing suit (see cut, p. 74), have included twice hopping the Atlantic (TIME, Sept. 14, 1936). Suddenly a thudding shiver ran through the plane as a wingtip sliced a treetop. Recalled Passenger W. T. Critchfield: "It sounded at first like a heavy truck running on gravel very fast. I looked at Saggio [a passenger...