Word: post
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Foreign Markets. The U. S. has negotiated 72 parcel-post conventions with various foreign countries, greatly facilitating foreign trade. Mr. New called the attention of businessmen to the danger in which the last Congress placed our parcel-post convention with uba by failing to remove restrictions on U. S. imports from Cuba...
...first response that the contest committee received, however, was not a slogan, motto, etc. It was a communication from the U. S. Post Office Department...
...wrong, but could only conclude that, in their enthusiasm for slogans, mottoes, etc., the Women Democrats had failed to realize that their entrance-fee-and-prize-money scheme constituted what is known as a lottery. Lotteries, as everyone knows, are prohibited from the U. S. mails by law. The Post Office Department would gladly refrain from prosecuting if the women Democrats would cancel the entrance fee feature of their contest...
...expatriates in Moscow, bared their heads in last week's chilly air and cried good wishes to a small, chunky blonde girl, who dressed in grey knickers, sat at the wheel of a smart tourist car. She, Clarenore Stinnes, daughter of the late Hugo Stinnes, Germany's post-War industrial tsar, had broken a transeurasian tour at Moscow...
...disabled ship, the latitude and longitude of its position. Often the rescuer will arrive in time to save those who have been dropped over the side of the sinking vessel in bobbing lifeboats. Among them he probably will not find the wireless operator who has held to his post, exhausting every possibility of communication...