Word: mailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week there came from the Post Office Department an order withdrawing from the Berengaria, the Ansonia and the Andania, three Cunard Line vessels, all trans-Atlantic mail not specifically addressed to these three vessels. Immediately came protests. The Berengaria crosses the Atlantic in six days. Transfer of its mail to other, slower ships meant that such mail would take from three to six days longer in transit. The Post Office speedily reversed itself, rescinded the order, explained that it had been issued because it had been supposed that the Berengaria would be late in sailing. The rescinding order also...
Post Office officials strenuously denied any connection between the shipping '"war" and the mail consignment. Said Second Assistant Postmaster General Glover: "My only interest is in seeing that the mail goes to Europe as fast as possible." It should be remembered that the government of the U. S. has many departments, many activities, that Postmaster General New, for instance, would have no official reason to be grieved if every U. S. citizen went to Cuba on a British ship. Meanwhile, however, reports that the mail orders were reprisals against Cunarders persisted, named T. V. O'Connor, chairman...
Back home at Smith College, President William Allan Neilson found his mail doubled over night. The extra letters were from alumnae, begging him to drop Jolter Barnes...
First popularized by marshmallow-voiced soloists, recorded on Victor or Columbia disks, the news-songs filter into every part of the U. S. largely through the mail-order houses. "Little Marion Parker" as a phonograph record has been sold to more than 250,000 persons; as sheet music to some...
...where he took a job in the Rio Grande & Western roundhouse. He got married and began studying in the International Correspondence School. Soon came his first big "break," the blown-out cylinder head, now famed among Chrysler admirers, which he and a helper mended in time to send the mail-train out on schedule...