Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...advance, he said that unless the Appropriations Committee voted the full $47 million in a matter of hours he ("and it breaks my heart even to consider such action") would have to take a whole string of drastic steps: 1) shut down post offices on Saturdays, 2) stop Saturday mail deliveries, 3) trim business-district deliveries and 4) curb third-class mail and postal money-order services...
...emergency appropriation. One reason was that Congress had revised the postal workers' pay structure, increasing the payroll $17 million a year. Beyond that. Summerfield had the solid argument that unprecedented growth of population and of economic activity in the U.S. had increased the amount of mail handled yearly by the Post Office Department from 36 billion items to 56 billion in ten years...
...cries of support for Summerfield began to come in from postmen who were worried about their pay-and voters who were worried about their mail-Congressmen began to recall that the mail is one Government service that reaches almost every constituent almost every day. The day after Summerfield's press conference, the Appropriations Committee turned tail, voted to reconsider his request. In a second press conference, the Postmaster General announced that his proposed cutbacks would not take effect until this weekend -the day after the committee is scheduled to make up its mind about that other $30 million...
...reason for the quick stitching was the old familiar roll call. A whole force of Republicans and Southern Democrats, mindful of heavy cut-that-budget mail, happily hacked away during voice votes, but switched in near panic when they were maneuvered into roll calls. Among the items restored by recorded vote: $50 million for grants to states for sewage-treatment plants. Any Congressman knows that a recorded vote against an important appropriation like that would raise an awful smell back home...
...SUBSIDY will soon be ended for Pan American World Airways. Because Pan Am is earning at least 7% return on mail pay and passenger revenues (commercial traffic rose by 25% in 1956), CAB will cut fiscal 1957 subsidy to $2,500,000 from planned $7,663,000, eliminate expected 1958 grant...