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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ocean mail increased 5% over last year, amounted...
...Expenditure of $24,000,000 last year for levees, revetments and dredging in the Mississippi River advanced Flood Control so far that "the largest flood that has ever passed down the river without serious crevasses was held between the main river levees without any disastrous breaks." This year's expenditure...
...Assistant Secretary of War Frederick Trubee Davison, in charge of aeronautics, reported that the Army Air Corps' "most pressing question" was promotion of junior officers. Army and reserve pilots flew 263,381 aircraft hours last year, covered 26,300,000 miles, had 60 men killed...
...cost $782,408,753 to carry last year's mails, of which about $560,000,000 went as pay to approximately 274,000 postal employes. For this service the public paid $696,947,577 to the Post Office Department, made up an $85,000,000 deficit indirectly through taxation. "Free mail" carried would have netted, if paid...
...Divided into four classes, 49,425 post offices were in operation in the U. S. last year...