Word: years
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Because the cost of air mail service exceeded the postage revenue by some $7,000,000 last year, thus increasing the department's deficit Postmaster General Brown has called a conference of air mail operators to "readjust" contract rates...
...James District of the Arkansan Ozarks last winter came Connie Franklin, a shell-shocked War veteran escaped from the Arkansas Hospital for Nervous Diseases. He worked as a farm hand, wooed 16-year-old Tillir Ruminer. One evening last March they set out along a lonely path to be married. Suddenly nine men fell upon them. Tillir the attackers raped. Franklin they emasculated, tossed to death on a flaming woodpile...
When the Byrd Expedition embarked more than a year ago, the British Government forwarded to the U. S. State Department a note expressing polite interest in the U. S. venture, but at the same time carefully detailing British claims to most of the Antarctic continent and surrounding archipelagoes...
Last month, after a year's delay, the State Department acknowledged receipt of the note, stated that there was no need for comment at this time. Implication of the U. S. note was that there would be time enough for Antarctic pie-cutting after the Byrd explorations were completed...
...National Tuberculosis Association started selling its Christmas Seals Thanksgiving Day. By New Year's Day the Association through its state and community sub-organizations expects to raise $5,500,000. One-twentieth of the amount ($275,000) will go to the National Association for its general work. The balance remains in the contributing communities for any necessary local work on the prevention and cure of tuberculosis...