Word: postalized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Airmail service is a big-city luxury. U. S. airlines, hungrily eying the enormous potential postal business for them in small towns, have had to pass it up, since collecting mail on a "milk-route" would be slow because of many stops, uneconomic because of the high cost of landing fields...
...traveling step need be retraced. Up to 8,500 miles may be traveled for one fare. Straight coach tickets for this mileage would cost $130. Exultantly cried one-man Washington lobby, New York State's ex-Senator John A. Hastings: "The sole question remaining is, why not Postal-ize fares 365 days a year to all points...
...selections will be made from the fifteen this spring by postal ballots sent out to the alumni. Arranged according to classes, the list includes John L. O'Brien '96, Buffalo, former head of War Emergency Division of the U. S. Department of Justice and former President of the Harvard Club of Buffalo; David Cheever '97, Boston, Associate Professor of Surgery at the Harvard Medical School; and Maxwell Savage '99, Worcester, former President of the Harvard Club there...
...Last week Dr. William Leiserson, acting as special arbitrator, ruled that Western Union and Postal Telegraph must up pay of 15,000 em-loyes to 250 per hour...
Died. Clarence Hungerford Mackay, 64. board chairman of Postal Telegraph-Cable Co., husband of onetime Opera Singer Anna Case, father of Mrs. Irving Berlin; after long illness; in Manhattan. From his Irish immigrant father, who made a fortune gold-mining, dapper, debonair, lavishly educated Clarence Mackay inherited Postal Telegraph, worked it up to a $500,000,000 world-wide system. As a Manhattan socialite he played godfather and chief guarantor to many an artistic institution, including the New York Phil-harmonic-Symphony, until Depression began to gnaw away the income from his tremendous fortune...