Word: departmentizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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*Because the cost of air mail service exceeded the postage revenue by some $7,000,000 last year, thus increasing the department's deficit Postmaster General Brown has called a conference of air mail operators to "readjust" contract rates.
*Last week Postmaster General Brown announced that his department was ready to award ocean mail contracts over 13 approved routes, provided that in return for ten-million-dollar annual contracts, 40 new mail ships, totaling 460,000 tons, be constructed in ten years at a cost of $250,000,000...
When the Byrd Expedition embarked more than a year ago, the British Government forwarded to the U. S. State Department a note expressing polite interest in the U. S. venture, but at the same time carefully detailing British claims to most of the Antarctic continent and surrounding archipelagoes.
Last month, after a year's delay, the State Department acknowledged receipt of the note, stated that there was no need for comment at this time. Implication of the U. S. note was that there would be time enough for Antarctic pie-cutting after the Byrd explorations were completed...
To stimulate Seals sale and to report to the medical profession, Dr. William Hallock Park, director of the New York City department of health's bureau of laboratories, last week announced: "There is good reason to believe that the Calmette-Guérin vaccine has been effective in giving protection against...