Word: circularity
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Sirs: Reference to your issue of July 28, under the heading, "Cabinet-2½? 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...
That Postmaster General Brown was not ready to accept any old expedient to increase postal revenue became clear last week when he turned down a proposition from direct-mail advertisers who wanted him to handle their circulars without putting them to the expense of addressing. They wanted to dump into any post office great bundles of circulars for which they would pay the usual rates. Each letter carrier would have been given a bundle with orders to leave one circular at each stop on his route. Overburdened postmen would have stooped even lower under this enormous new load. Declared Postmaster...
...goads shall be 2.70 metres long ending in a triangular steel sticker with a flattened point. The point will have a circular guard of iron seven centimetres in diameter, three centimetres thick, to prevent undue laceration of the bull's skin...
...semi-finished iron and steel products cut prices 3% last week; 2) under an arbitral ruling by Minister of Labor Adam Stegerwald (Time, June 9) the Westphalian producers won last week the right to reduce 200,000 workmen's wages 7½% next month; 3) in a trade circular the Westphalian metal syndicate urged other German industrialists to cut prices and wages, but for the time being this scheme remained a proposal, possibly a trend...
...bell-like top the stack measures twenty feet in diameter. From the top is suspended on a beam a circular platform on which the two workers stand. As the chimney walls are six feet thick, the platform has been made slightly less than eight feet in diameter too narrow to permit a fatal stop on the part of the worker, but with enough room to let the loosened bricks fall through...