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Word: maile (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Post Office joined the anti-gas campaign when little, red mail vans began loading the first of 20,000,000 free booklets on how to protect homes from gas and air raids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Masks for All | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

...cruise up the coast to Nova Scotia and back to Campobello Island. "I'm going to take a complete rest," the President told his Hyde Park neighbors last week, "except that I shall have to read 40 or 50 dispatches a day and sign a bucketful of official mail every few days. I'll have to do this unless, of course, I get lost in a fog off the Maine coast. Well, my friends, I'm praying for fog. These days most people pray for light, but I'm praying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Prayer for Fog | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

Under the Jones-White Act of 1928, the Government agreed to lend shipping companies up to 75% of construction costs, pay them fat mail contracts to subsidize operations. This indirect subsidy was still not enough to put U. S. ships on an equal competitive footing with directly subsidized foreign liners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Maritime Authority | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

Profitless Oil. Unlike Britain, the U. S. has only a few communities cooperatively self-contained, notably Maynard, Mass., where co-ops can furnish nearly all consumer needs. There are two small co-op mail-order houses. Co-operation has been adapted to rural telephones, power plants, personal loans (credit unions), groceries, trucking, insurance, undertaking. But except for farm supplies the most conspicuous success has been with oil & gas. Co-op gas stations have multiplied two-thousand-fold since the first was founded in Cottonwood, Minn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Co-Ops | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

...Long Island florist addressed prospective clients by mail as follows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 6, 1936 | 7/6/1936 | See Source »

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