Word: mail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...officials deplore the U.S. postal service as a relic of shabby inefficiency, but no harsh words do it quite the justice of The Great Billion Dollar Mail Case, which brought Edward R. Murrow back to a new season of See It Now on CBS this week. Cameras behind the scenes of Manhattan's main post office caught the overwhelming frustration of an archaic system, dispirited employees and a staggering, endless load of work. They also recorded pent-up grievances of clerks, letter carriers and their boss, Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield, presented the contrast of smooth modernity...
...checks written last May by the treasurer of last year's Combined Charities Drive have not yet been mailed to the charities, the Student Council learned last night from Gregory B. Stone '58, chairman of last year's drive. Council president Larry R. Johnson '58 said he would mail these checks immediately...
...assistant cameraman and sound man) finished a job in Alaska for a show on Alaskan and Hawaiian statehood and flew to Tokyo to join Marian Anderson on a three-month tour of Southeast Asia. Two teams were finishing film for next week's show, The Great Billion Dollar Mail Case, a critical look into the U.S. Post Office. A fourth crew was filming in Europe. In Manhattan headquarters. Friendly pruned incoming footage for perusal by Murrow and began a first draft of next week's narration. Says Friendly, who suffers a severe case of Murrow-worship, a malady...
Burning Issue. In Tokyo, apologizing for its delay in filling orders for musical cigarette lighters that play I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire, the Japan Central Exchange Mail Order Service explained: "The factory burned down...
...first lieutenant agreed. The guard was overruled, and the U. S. mail went through...