Word: central
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Cambridge, 38 is one of 93 branches of the main Post Office building in Boston. Although under the jurisdiction of the central control, it is largely autonomous with regards to most of the actions involved in mail-delivering procedure. Its area of distribution is the largest of all Cambridge postal districts, extending from the Charles River to North Cambridge and Somerville, and from Belmont to Dana Street and Putnam Avenue...
...mail leaving the city, Cambridge, 38 merely bundles it and sends it to the main Cambridge Post Office in Central Square. Cambridge 39, or Cambridge A, as it is often called, handles the classification of the mail from there. With Parcel Post, however, the local office must deal with an unusually large number of packages, mainly because Harvard has so many students whose homes are at a considerable distance from Cambridge. These packages are put in sacks according to state or foreign destination, and three times a day are sent to the railway station for distribution...
...destination. At this point, one must widen his field of observation, and consider the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad. This strange utility is responsible for delivering the mail each day from New York to Boston on the late night train, but, according to the Superintendent in the central Cambridge Post Office, that train is as often late as it is on time, with degree of lateness varying from one-half to one and one-half hours...
...York train is scheduled to arrive Back Bay Station at 5:30 a.m. where mail trucks from the Cambridge A office take the mail and bring it out to the Central Square building. There it is sorted into the various route categories before being brought over to Cambridge 38, where it is further subdivided into street divisions. These processes take a fair amount of time, and since by postal regulation all postmen must be starting on their routes by 8:40 a.m., a late train often means that no New York mail is delivered in the University until the next...
...atomic weapons in place of troops to pursue its policy of "gradual deterrence." The author cites Air Force Secretary Donald Quarles's belief that conflicts must be localized through "carefully chosen atomic weapons." Katzenbach doubts, however, that atomic weapons could be used successfully in the Suez crisis, or in central Europe...