Word: postals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...head, dead or alive, was a $2,000 reward. He was responsible, said Chicago police, for the hold-up of an Illinois Central train and the murder of a guard; tor the robbery of a Cicero, Ill. post office ot $18,000 and the wounding of a U. S. postal inspector; for the killing of the Chief ot Police of Berwyn...
...company hit last week was Airvia Transportation Co., which is just getting its wing-hold commercially. U. S. postal inspectors swooped into its Manhattan offices, ordered officers and employes to bring their account books to a Federal grand jury for study. Other inspectors did the same at Coastal Airways office, because of that line's pending merger with Airvia. Still other inspectors visited Hadley & Co., investment security sellers. Federal warrants were issued for the arrest of one Austin Howard Montgomery (alias Arthur Montgomery, alias Monte Griffo, onetime convict) and Gerald Tiffany (alias Harry Taylor). Trans-Atlantic Flyers Roger Quincy...
...become another A. T. & T., but in foreign parts. It brought together telephone systems in Cuba, Porto Rico, Spain, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil. Then able Colonel Sosthenes Behn went a step further. He added to I. T. & T. first the All American Cables, then the Mackay System (Postal Telegraph, Commercial Cables, Mackay Radio). Now he does business by telephone, cable and radio in most parts of the world. He has arranged to acquire, if and when Congress permits, the radio telegraph service of Radio Corp...
...clubmember can: borrow a set of clubs, play golf all day long on public links, have a good time. Last week the best of the public linksters had even a better time, played in the annual National Public Links championship at Forest Park Golf Club. St. Louis. Railway clerks, postal employes, butlers, competed against bank-runners, shoe salesmen, bellboys. There were some low scores. In the qualifying round, Brooklyn's Henry Fabrizio took a 70, three others had 75 or better. Many were...
Mail. Aboard were 50,631 pieces of mail, whose aggregate postal charges were $44,074.11. Of this Germany...