Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stamps." It is surprising to learn that "Postmaster General . . . turned down a proposition from direct mail advertisers who wanted to handle their circulars without putting them to the expense of addressing. . . . Each letter carrier would have been given a bundle with orders to leave one circular at each stop on his route, because that is exactly the way we have been receiving circulars, etc. here in Northern Jersey for at least a year- all kinds of local advertising and political circulars and I recall one from a well known firm as far away as Ohio-all with no more definite...
...that one might be unfortunate enough to get on a ''sucker list" but now we are subject to a deluge of mail without even getting on a list. It's time the postoffice department not only turned down such a practice, but actually put a stop...
President Hoover last week had back on his hands one of the oldest and thorniest disputes between the Army and Navy. The question: where, in coast defense, does naval aviation stop and military aviation begin? It was the kind of controversy that President Hoover, as commander-in-chief of both services, could not refer to an expert commission for settlement because all the experts? officers of the Army and Navy?were already professionally prejudiced...
...Angeles, last week, hurdled the San Bernardino mountains, shot across the Mojave Desert to greet the rising sun, roared into Albuquerque in 3 hr. 26 min. The speed indicator clung close to 250 m.p.h. as the low-winged bullet tore eastward to Wichita. Next came a mid-afternoon stop at Indianapolis and then, three hours later, Curtiss Airport, Valley Stream L. I.-a new transcontinental record...
...under orders from the state department to avoid any official "joint action" with other powers. Foreign governments were nervous. Hankow, richest of prizes, was directly in the path of the "Communist" army advancing north from Changsha, and neither the Nationalist Government nor the Northern Peking rebels seemed likely to stop them...