Word: mail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course, but it is not the vote that is important. It is the principle of the thing, the example to others, the patriotic performance of one's civic duty. Unfortunately, it was discovered last week, the California law will prevent Nominee Hoover from casting his vote by mail. He had planned to be in the crucial East on the eve of the election. Plans were changed...
...made, amounting approximately to one billion dollars, which is an obligation that is being passed on to succeeding administrations. I wish to focus the public attention on these fundamental facts and figures when it is fed with picturesque trifles about petty economies, such as eliminating stripes from mail bags and extinguishing electric lights in the offices at night...
...With this has gone a governmental policy of refusal to make necessary expenditures for purposes which would have effected a real economy. The Postmaster-General states that there was a large annual waste in the handling of mail, resulting from lack of modern facilities and equipment. Scarcely a large city in the country had adequate quarters for the transaction of Federal business. The government pays rent in the city of Washington alone of more than one million dollars annually. It is estimated that the government is paying rentals of twenty million dollars in the nation. True economy would be effected...
...ranging from 35 to 41? a pound. But last February, the price of crude rubber broke sharply, fell to 26.9? in March, 17.2? in April, stood last week just under 20?. Large tire companies took a staggering loss on their inventories. Tire prices fell to meet fierce competition from mail order houses and small dealers who had not accumulated a rubber reserve...
Last week, the results of many a year of statistic-gathering were told 60 students at the fashion clinic of the Amos Parrish Co. in the Savoy Plaza Hotel, Manhattan. Among the 60 were managers of fashionable shops, buyers, stylists, representatives of a mail order house (Montgomery, Ward & Co.), reporters (The Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News). Each wanted to penetrate the mystery of fashion. Each had paid $200 for the opportunity...