Word: postcarded
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...pieces of precious optical glass, told the amateurs to go ahead and try. The amateurs failed to hit the mark at their first attempts. Porter, Ingalls & Person thereupon lined up So top-notch amateurs, named them "The Gang," sent them instructions, set up a system of postcard communication, soon began to deliver roof prisms by the thousand...
...more phonographs, especially big electric models (some have money of their own). One German officer demanded a canary. Both Germans and Italians worry the guards with trivial requests-like going for beer after hours. Common complaint: not enough mail. POWs are permitted to send two letters, one postcard a week...
...saying he would be glad to send an armed guard for it. Still no reply. MacLeish wrote a third time, saying he would not only send an armed squadron but would insure the document for $100,000. This likewise went unanswered. MacLeish gave up. . . . [Then] he received a penny postcard. It advised him that the article he wished to borrow would be along in a couple of days. The next day it arrived-done up in ordinary brown paper. . . . And it was insured...
...Historical Society. It is in John Adams' hand, not Jefferson's. It was insured for $5,000, taken to Washington by Julian Boyd, Princeton University librarian, accompanied by a Library of Congress guard. There was no correspondence between MacLeish and the Adams family. There was no penny postcard, no $25 insurance-in fact, until Dixon made one, no story...
...fated to lead U.S. troops in their first major engagement against Rommel and suffer the February defeat at Kasserine Pass, which cost more than 2,000 casualties and seriously delayed the offensive. His lines were extended so far it would have taken a week to send a postcard from one end to the other. Rightly or wrongly, Fredendall became the goat of the U.S. defeat, although he later turned and with a vastly inferior force drove the enemy from the Pass. As commander of the Second Army he will be promoted to lieutenant general...