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Am Ex will run the route without a mail contract, therefore at a loss. Since April 1937, Am Ex has scrapped up & down Congressional hallways for a mail subsidy, was always outmaneuvered, outweighed by nimble giant Pan Am, which wants the Atlantic route to itself. But Am Ex can still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Am Ex to Foynes | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

The rich cache of personal history which the robbers left behind was discovered by two young artists renovating the house. Beneath the dust and grime of a century, Mr. and Mrs. James Heugh found three ripped canvas mail sacks. Letters lay strewn among the joists, the seals broken, envelopes and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Addressee: Dead | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

In a rather low-scoring contest the Puritans gained their first victory of the season, setting back Dudley 15 to 5. Rogers, Sacks, and Brown garnered 13 points for Winthrop while LeMoal of the Ramblers was high scorer for his team with 3.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland, Lowell, Leverett Unbeaten | 12/11/1941 | See Source »

Returns. In Kansas City, a tornado blew a $270 check from the desk of J. E. Wyatt. It was returned to him from Mendota, Mo., 150 miles away. In Charlestown, N.H., a mail clerk who lost a jackknife figured he might possibly have dropped it into one of 14 outgoing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 17, 1941 | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

All through Szechwan Province last week the squealing of unoiled wheelbarrows made sensitive eardrums quiver. Rice was wheeling in-tons of rice in dust-coated, round, bulging sacks. In the ears of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek the sound was a screech of victory. It meant that Szechwan, Chungking's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: The Rice of Szechwcm | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

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