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...ship in the air over land, the crew would have slipped into parachutes suspended in the cabin like oldtime fire-horse harness, pulled a lever that unpinned the door hinges, kicked their way to freedom. Floating down with them, attached to each 'chute, would have been a compact parcel containing 30 days' rations, water, a hunting knife, fishing tackle, a first-aid kit and snakebite remedy...
...last week, a jolly crowd of ambassadors, ministers, diplomats bade an informal farewell to U. S. Ambassador Joseph E. Davies, who was leaving for his new post at Brussels. As the train pulled out. a messenger from the Kremlin rushed up to Mr. Davies, handed him a small flat parcel. Inside were autographed pictures of Joseph Stalin and Premier Viacheslav M. Molotov...
...thereupon pitched in and helped elect as President its guest of honor at the founding banquet in Cincinnati-William McKinley. Through the subsequent decades N. A. M. worked for the Parcel Post Act, the Federal Reserve Act, the Food & Drug Act, Workmen's Compensation legislation and the Panama Canal. It has always stood for a bigger & better merchant marine, and probably its most notable achievement was in promotion of foreign trade in the days before the Bureau of Foreign & Domestic Commerce. At one time it maintained its own commercial attaches in important foreign business centres, and its voluminous files...
Died. Albert Sidney Burleson, 74, one-time (1899-1913) Congressman from Texas, Postmaster General (1913-1921); of heart trouble, in Austin, Tex. Postmaster Burleson built up the parcel post system, established the first regular air mail, advocated, after the War, permanent Government control of telegraph, telephone and cable services...
...wired Cyrus Curtis, was hired as literary editor at $40 a week. He became full-fledged chief after a few weeks, threw out the shears and pastepot. For the next four decades, from nine to five he bustled in action at Independence Square, went home to dinner with a parcel of manuscripts under his arm, read them until late hours. He shunned public appearances, social life...