Word: postal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because of the necessity of effecting economics in the local postal system, Harvard men will no longer enjoy the benefits of an afternoon mail delivery on Wednesday. No longer will they spend that afternoon enraptured by the honeyed words of an epistle from "her". In vain will they stand watch by their respective letter boxes waiting for "that" letter. Stern economy has decreed that it shall not come...
Announcement has been made by the officers of the Military Science Department of a series of "postal" pistol matches with other universities which have been scheduled for the Harvard R.O.T.C. pistol team, under the direction of Major H. Crampton Jones. The matches are shot off at the two competing universities by teams of unlimited size, the five best scores are selected...
...Through Postal Telegraph, Chicago University's President Robert Maynard Hutchins three weeks ago had a birthday message sung over the telephone to his wife. Postal Telegraph called the service "irregular," stopped it. Through Western Union one can send any of twelve prepared birthday greetings, have notes, letters, orangeade, sandwiches delivered by messenger, subscribe to TIME. Last week Western Union added a new service when it agreed to accept packages at all of its offices for shipment through the Railway Express Agency. At no extra cost Western Union messengers will call for packages up to the value of $250, take...
...mail test flights, two Army planes had forced landings in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Three days later a reserve officer called to postal duty was ferrying a Douglas bomber to the Army's western airmail base. He got lost in the Idaho badlands, crashed and burned to death near Jerome. Same day two more reserve pilots were delivering a plane to the western base when they ran into a blizzard near Salt Lake City. Ice coated the ship, bore it down out of control. So inaccessible was the spot in which they died that the pilots' bodies...
Summoned to the telephone, Maude Phelps Hutchins, artist-wife of Chicago University's youthful President Robert Maynard Hutchins, was told: "This is Postal Telegraph. We have a message for you." Then three girls in the telegraph office sang the message over the wire: "Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, "Happy birthday, dear Maude, happy birthday to you! - from Robert." Delighted, Mrs. Hutchins remembered that it was also the birthday of her good friend Mrs. Howard Linn, ordered the telegraph company to ring her up, and have sung: "Happy Birthday, dear Lucy. . . . from Maude and Bob." Next...