Word: parcelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into Wilkes-Barre, Pa. parcel-post boxes one evening last week were dumped six cigar boxes, neatly wrapped in white paper. Each was labeled "Sample" and addressed to a local citizen...
Year ago public sensibilities were shocked when the company offered to parcel out among all claimants the sum of $20,000. According to the terms of the passenger contracts, of which many a victim remained unaware, claims were invalid unless entered within 30 days...
Fortnight ago in Syracuse, N. Y., a postal clerk came upon a parcel addressed to "Comrade Chancellor Charles Flint, Syracuse University." When the parcel gave off a muffled tick, the clerk turned white as a miller, rushed the parcel to the postmaster. The postmaster sent for the police. The police sent for a Department of Justice expert on infernal machines. The expert dunked the parcel in a pail of water, prodded it with a long pole, gingerly took it apart. Disclosed was an arrangement of cardboard tubes, cotton wadding, piano wire, an alarm clock works and some sort of granulated...
Investigation disclosed that the parcel had been mailed from the nearby University postal station. While Syracusans last week gossiped excitedly about the bold "Communist" student plot against the life of conservative, close-mouthed Chancellor Flint, up stepped a timid undergraduate in the University's School of Architecture to name himself and 25 fellow-students as senders of the "bomb." Haled into court to face charges of disorderly conduct, the 25 students sheepishly explained that they had merely wanted to have some fun, pointed out that the "bomb" was harmless. The white powder: sugar. Federal authorities scratched their heads, admitted...
Frustrated in the Pacific for two months by a parcel of pesky troubles, Pan American Airways last week was pleased to see its famed Clippers again making good news on three separate fronts...