Word: mailman
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...Prince of Wales, Henry Ford and Lena Stillman, and I look bored, but not blank, when the McNary-Haugen bill is mentioned. Last week I had just finished reading TIME from red cover to red cover, felt buoyantly well-informed. The doorbell rang, and there was the mailman with another edition of TIME. Oh dear! Yours, till my subscription runs...
Elementary arithmetic last week engaged the attention of U. S. citizens interested in the question of what commercial aviation company shall be Uncle Sam's mailman on the New York-Chicago leg of the transcontinental air mail route. "Why," asked figurers, "did Postmaster General New award the New York-Chicago contract to the National Air Transport Co.'s bid of $1.24 a pound when the North American Airways Co. bid $1.23 a pound, and when Capt. Earle F. Stewart of Manhattan bid 35¢ a pound?" Computers added also that U. S. Comptroller General McCarl had previously ruled that the Government...
...Chicago mailman and his partner...
...Mailman. A very small and energetic group of citizens are intent upon rousing the large and lethargic population to the rescue of its postal servants. Apparently mailmen are distressingly underpaid, overworked and ill provided for by pension. These points are all driven home in this film with the sounding mallet of melodrama. The purpose of the plan is obviously to provide campaign material for the emancipation of the mail slaves; by its banality it serves another cause equally well-the cause of those who detest the rank old-fashioned type of hiss and cur melodrama...
...appears, is the champion manager of cowboy championships. "He always pays 100 cents on the dollar. He plays no favorites. No one ever bought, stole or ran away with a title at one of Tex Austin's contests." So reads his literature-which has been deposited by the mailman in most of the ranch post boxes of the West...