Word: parcelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a lady made news when she sent some 200 tons of bricks by parcel post from Philadelphia to a U. S. Army reservation some 31 mi. southwest of Louisville. Ky. The lady was the Director of the U. S. Mint, Nellie Tayloe Ross. The bricks were about $200,000,000 in gold, the Government's first bullion shipment to its great new fortress-vault at Fort Knox...
...from New York, Philadelphia and other vaults to the great new fortress-vault at Fort Knox, Ky. Ordinary railroad charge for such a haul would be some $200,000. Last week it was revealed that the Treasury would take advantage of government mail contracts, send its gold by registered parcel post. At the standard rate of 10? per oz., the postage bill to a private sender would be $19,200,000. Generous Postmaster General Farley is expected to charge Secretary Morgenthau only about...
...orthodox authorities, Eric Janson sent a boatload of his followers to pioneer a colony in the U. S. The first shipload of Jansonites went down in mid-Atlantic with all hands. Janson and a second company of his followers succeeded in reaching Illinois in 1846, purchased their first parcel of 60 acres in Henry County, called the settlement Bishop Hill...
...mile sprint around a ten-mile triangle, it is the only rival in popularity to the Bendix Race, which it last week paralleled in results almost completely. With the best U. S. pilots out because of their accidents in the Bendix, the Thompson was left to a parcel of minor U. S. racers, one foreign ace-France's huge, 31-year-old Michel Detroyat. Close friend of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, whom he was instrumental in rescuing from Le Bourget crowds after the New York-Paris flight in 1927, Detroyat is France's best stunt flyer, has twice...
...Samuel InsulTs public utilities empire was the gigantic catch-all corporation called Middle West Utilities. Not to be confused with Insult's three Grade A Chicago properties (Commonwealth Edison, Peoples Gas Light & Coke and Public Service of Northern Illinois), Middle West was a holding company for a heterogeneous parcel of small and large utility companies serving 5,321 villages and towns in 36 States from Maine to Texas...