Word: parcelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some concern. He seemed to have had too much to drink. His luggage included a smallbore rifle and cartridges. (It later developed that he was expected to compete in a shoot at Chicago's North Shore Gun Club.) And he was extraordinarily fussy about taking a brown-paper parcel into the cabin with him. The porter decided Mr. Smith's behavior was not ominous enough to warrant reporting. He slammed the cabin door shut and in a moment No. 23 roared away-a big twin-motored Boeing of the latest design-with its two passengers, its crew...
...representative appeared in Manhattan. Archibald Kelly held court at the Hotel St. Regis and lived at the Wraldorf-Astoria. But even from the affable Mr. Kelly, liquormen learned nothing. It was variously reported that D. C. L. was about to set up its own agency, that it intended to parcel out its brands among various distributors; that it was really dickering with 'leggers who had been such splendid customers these many years. Who if anyone would finally get the business of the $125,000,000-whiskey trust remained last week the most exciting secret of the liquor trade...
...same interstate commerce complication lurked in the distribution through the mails of publications carrying beer advertising into Dry states. If 3.2% beer can legally pass through the mails as parcel post, does it become intoxicating and therefore non-deliverable the moment it crosses a Dry State line? Other legal questions yet unsettled...
...century into some remote period of a forgotten past. For these six months I subscribed to TIME, which previously I had known only as a magazine on my friends' tables. Of course it came late, but that made no difference in such a place. I used to parcel it out, reading sections of the magazine each night by candlelight after I had finished writing up my day's notes, and restraining myself with great difficulty from swallowing it all at one gulp. I do not think a magazine could have been put to a more exacting test...
...Parcel post rates be upped to make the service self-sustaining and postmasters cease soliciting such business...