Word: mailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Just now the Stock Market is badly run down," pontificated the Viscount in his Daily Mail, Britain's daily of largest circulation (1,989,043). "I am sorry to see that the wave of apprehension . . . is deluding some of the shareholders in my group of companies into throwing away their shares at prices which I can assure them are much below their real worth. . . . It is almost tragically humorous...
...conferences. Government accountants studied them during the fortnight, calling in the operators occasionally. They were impatient to get back to their own offices in different parts of the country. But exigency kept them irefully at Washington. The accountants discovered that some of the operators were making money on their mail business. Most were not. The money-makers argued that their present profits were just beginning to wipe out the losses which they had endured in previous years. A strong debating point was the fact that the Government needs a large and efficient air service to provide trained men and ready...
Another duty of the Plebe, an important one, is that of delivering the mail after the noon and evening meals. The "mail dragger" has a sad job. He is pestered by each man who always wants his mail as soon as it comes, and cannot wait until it is brought to his room...
...Most of my fan mail comes from fraternity and sorority houses," she said, "I really get a lot, and from all over the world...
...received a marriage proposal from a U. S. swain-by-mail. "No, I am not going to America to look him over...