It is this curious blend of rugged individualism and public service which accounts for the great appeal of the mythological detective.

He had worked in the newspaper business since he was nineteen years old, always for the Hearst service.

As a result, he was sent to a hospital in Arizona until his health improved enough for him to come back to Washington to work in the Government service.

It was Baker, working through Provost Marshal Enoch Crowder and Major Hugh S. ( `` Old Ironpants '' ) Johnson, who arranged for a secret printing by the million of selective service blanks -- again before the Act was passed -- until corridors in the Government Printing Office were full and the basement of the Washington Post Office was stacked to the ceiling.

Bless you my friends, for it is through love and service that brotherhood becomes a reality.

When he had given the call a few moments thought, he went into the kitchen to ask Mrs. Yamata to prepare tea and sushi for the visitors, using the formal English china and the silver tea service which had been donated to the mission, then he went outside to inspect the grounds.

The third credit service, Banks for Cooperatives, exists under authority of the Farm Credit Act of 1933.

May the Divine Speaker in Heaven bless this country with Sam Rayburn's continued service here for years to come.

Here briefly in this humble tribute I have sought for some simple and succinct summation that would define the immense service of this patriot to his country.

The mapping of important physical features such as slopes and types of soil and the collection of all available information pertaining to public utility service areas are being conducted as staff projects and, like the other two inventory projects, are scheduled for completion July 1, 1961.

Estimated annual savings resulting from publication of the Journal and Bulletin on a triservice basis, as compared with the cost of producing separate periodicals for each service, were between $65,000 and $70,000.

Mr. Speaker, for several years now the commuter railroads serving our large metropolitan areas have found it increasingly difficult to render the kind of service our expanding population wants and is entitled to have.

There we held `` that the statutory scheme for review, within the selective service system, entitles [ conscientious objectors ] to no guarantee that the FBI reports must be produced for their inspection ''.

In most cases service in the Corps will probably be considered a ground for temporary deferment.

Rather, such assignments are made, as they must be, on the basis of certain overall rules and standards, representing to some extent a statistical approach to the problem, taking into account for each situation some of the variables ( e.g., power and station separations ) and averaging out others in order to achieve the balance which must be struck between protection against destructive interference and the assignment of a number of stations large enough to afford optimum radio service to the Nation.

The 20-to-1 ratio for cochannel interference embodies one of the fundamental limiting principles which we must always take into account in AM assignments and allocations -- that signals from a particular station are potential sources of objectionable interference over an area much greater than that within which they provide useful service.

For this reason, the more uncertain skywave service was denominated `` secondary '' in our rules, as compared to the steadier, more reliable groundwave `` primary service '', and, for both skywave service and skywave interference, signal strength is expressed in terms of percentage of time a particular signal-intensity level is exceeded -- 50 percent of the time for skywave service, 10 percent of the time for skywave interference.

Air Burkina, which began in 1967, is government-run and has a monopoly on domestic service.

Air service is maintained by Air Burundi, which operates domestic service and flies to Rwanda, Tanzania, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The country has only 429 kilometers of paved road, limited international, and no domestic air service, and does not possess a railroad.

Inter-RCA provides domestic service.

At 11 he went into the service of a grocer in Slatina ; and then he became a domestic in a public house in Craiova where he remained for several years.

In India, the Consumer Protection Act 1986 clearly differentiates a consumer as consuming a commodity or service either for his personal domestic use or to earn his livelihood.

barely adequate wire and microwave radio relay service in and between urban areas ; domestic satellite system with 14 earth stations

Air Djibouti, partly government-owned and partly owned by Air France, provides domestic service to six centers and flies to a number of overseas destinations.

Although the service sector has recently overtaken agriculture as the leading employer of Dominicans ( due principally to growth in tourism and Free Trade Zones ), agriculture remains the most important sector in terms of domestic consumption and is in second place ( behind mining ) in terms of export earnings.

In addition to overseas routes, Egypt Air provides reliable domestic air service to major tourist destinations from its Cairo hub.

Domestic systems are open wire ; microwave radio relay ; radio communication in the HF, VHF, and UHF frequencies ; two domestic satellites provide the national trunk service.

There is now an international airport, a domestic airport, a number of airstrips, a growing road network and a much-improved ferry service between the two main islands.

In domestic service, ferries connect Finland's islands with the mainland.

The national carrier of France is Air France, a full service global airline which flies to 20 domestic destinations and 150 international destinations in 83 countries ( including Overseas departments and territories of France ) across all 6 major continents.

* Federal Security Service ( Russia ), a domestic security service of Russia

Air Affaires Gabon handles scheduled domestic service.

There are adequate domestic and international service, provided by cables and microwave radio relay.

: domestic: GTA: ~ 70, 000 local access lines, dial-up and DSL, Internet, long distance service, TDMA and GSM wireless services

In the meantime, Guyana Airways Corporation's domestic service continued to deteriorate and, by 1993, possessed only one Twin Otter DHC-6 to service the entire country.

Ogle is the hub for domestic flights to Guyana's interior and offers once-daily service to the in-town airstrip in Paramaribo, capital of neighboring Suriname.

* Telephone system: domestic service fair, international service good

:: domestic: Microwave radio relay transmission and coaxial and fiber-optic cable are employed on trunk lines ; considerable use is made of mobile cellular systems ; Internet service is available.

He was delighted to learn that the Post Office Department is now going to expand this service to deliver mail from Representatives in Congress to their constituents without the use of stamps, names, addresses or even zone numbers.

The town gates are shut, rail travel is prohibited, and all mail service is suspended.

His vigorous internal policy mixed the economic reforms of Colbert for Louis XIV with some conservative Spanish aspects: a regular mail service to the Americas was instituted, yet the school of navigation he founded was reserved for the sons of the nobility.

He appointed a commission that set aside 3, 000, 000 acres ( 12, 000 km² ) of national parks and 2, 300, 000 acres of national forests ; advocated tax reduction for low-income Americans ( not enacted ); closed certain tax loopholes for the wealthy ; doubled the number of veterans ' hospital facilities ; negotiated a treaty on St. Lawrence Seaway ( which failed in the U. S. Senate ); wrote a Children's Charter that advocated protection of every child regardless of race or gender ; created an antitrust division in the Justice Department ; required air mail carriers to adopt stricter safety measures and improve service ; proposed federal loans for urban slum clearances ( not enacted ); organized the Federal Bureau of Prisons ; reorganized the Bureau of Indian Affairs ; instituted prison reform ; proposed a federal Department of Education ( not enacted ); advocated $ 50-per-month pensions for Americans over 65 ( not enacted ); chaired White House conferences on child health, protection, homebuilding and home-ownership ; began construction of the Boulder Dam ( later renamed Hoover Dam ); and signed the Norris – La Guardia Act that limited judicial intervention in labor disputes.

At this time, the Westmorland Road became open to year round travel and a regular mail coach service was established between Saint John and Halifax.

* 1935 – The China Clipper, the first transpacific mail and passenger service, takes off from Alameda, California for its first commercial flight.

Apple iOS devices, like the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad, can use Apple's MobileMe subscription service to synchronize calendar, address book, mail account, Internet bookmark, and other data with one or more Macintosh or Windows computers using Wi-Fi or cellular data connections.

Before the introduction of postage stamps, mail in the UK was paid for by the recipient, a system that was associated with an irresolvable problem: the costs of delivering mail were not recoverable by the postal service when recipients were unable or unwilling to pay for delivered items, and senders had no incentive to restrict the number, size, or weight of items sent, whether or not they would ultimately be paid for.

* Local post stamps — used on mail in a local post ; a postal service that operates only within a limited geographical area, typically a city or a single transportation route.

The United States Postal Service's Railway Mail Service was a significant mail transportation service in the US during the time period from the mid-19th century until the mid-20th century.

* Railway mail service library

* Railway Mail Service, US mail transportation service until the mid-20th century

* 1979 – Compu-Serve launches the first consumer internet service, which features the first public electronic mail service.

U. S. Virgin Islands mail service is handled by the United States Postal Service, using the two-character state code " VI " for domestic mail delivery.

* May 20 – Pan-American Airways begins trans-Atlantic mail service with the inaugural flight of its Yankee Clipper from Port Washington, New York.

* Regular mail service between Long Island and New England is established.

Services include domestic and international mail delivery, post office boxes, registered mail, priority mail ( local courier ), parcel delivery, express mail service ( international courier ), advertising mail and provision of post office boxes.

Datagram service is often compared to a mail delivery service, the user only provides the destination address, but receives no guarantee of delivery, and no confirmation upon successful delivery.