Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These 294 men and women file some 200,000 words (about equal to two copies of the Iliad) a week to New York, more than half of it by TIME'S own teletype network. They also supply some 30,000 less urgent words a week by air mail reports, and select and mail uncounted other documents...
...torpedoing of the Empress of India. What Horry did not know was that Mary Eileen's parents knew he had never left Auckland. One of the letters which he had arranged to have posted back from Australia had been opened by the New Zealand wartime censor of outgoing mail, who thus accidentally gave police a vital clue. Confronted by the cops, Horry had a new story: Mary Eileen had paid him to marry her, he said, then eloped with an American G.I. Police found clothes belonging to Mary Eileen in the possession of a woman Horry was living with...
...week's end, Burleigh was opening mail from Australia including one letter from a timber merchant offering "jobs for all of you and accommodations...
...mile to 45?, will order them to refund some $5,000,000 on airmail overpayments dating back to 1947. The airlines were doing so well they raised not a single squawk. With the new 45? rate which CAB proposes as the actual cost-plus-reasonable-profit of carrying the mail, the Big Four will reach a historic milestone: for the first time, all were officially free of any Government subsidy...
...Washington's permission to develop the St. Lawrence's 2,200,000 h.p. hydroelectric potential jointly with Ontario. Canadian newspapers unanimously challenged Ottawa to carry out its repeated public notices to build the seaway alone if Congress failed to act this year. Cried the Toronto Globe and Mail: "Anything less would be a betrayal of our national needs and our national future." In Toronto, Premier Leslie Frost tartly remarked: "Now that our friends to the south have decided in their wisdom not to come in with us, we ask that they please...