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Publishers and mail-order men applauded the House last week for passing, 220 to 0, a measure calculated to save them some $13,585,000 per annum in postage stamps. It was the long-awaited Griest bill, named for the Pennsylvanian chairman of the House Post Office Committee. It provided for a lowering of postal rates on second, third and fourth class matter. On the advertising sections of their magazines, for example, publishers would save from .25? to 2? per pound, according to zone, when they mail their publications out to subscribers. On postcards, which are used as much...
...Griest Bill, much hoped-for by publishers and mail-order men, went to the Senate. By some citizens it was viewed with alarm because it would increase the Post Office Department's chronic deficit from...
...instruction by the departments of botany, zoology and forestry. For a long time this extensive tract of forest has been under excellent protection and care. Around a portion of it is still found the high woven wire fence which confined the deer and elk when its former owner, Mr. Griest of New Haven, used the land as a deer park...
...HAVEN, CONN., March 25.--The Athletic Board of Control today appointed a committee to supervise the construction of a new eighteen-hole golf course on the Griest property, recently acquired by Yale. Actual construction work will begin after the Easter vacation. Announcement was also made today by the University authorities that Seniors would be allowed to drive automobiles after May 3. The privilege was granted as a result of a petition from the Academic and Sheffield Scientific School Student Council...