Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wage talks moved into the hard-bargaining phase for the U.S. Postal Service and its 570,000 mail carriers, sorters and other employees. Their three-year contract is due to expire on July 20. A reasonable settlement with the postal workers would put pressure on the nation's 475,000 railway workers, who are demanding a three-year contract with some 30% in pay increases, and have been locked in federal mediation talks since last January...
Despite such concern, the rebellion against taxes seemed to transcend class and racial differences. The New York Daily News, which asked readers to mark a "ballot" on how they felt about taxes, reported the largest response to any mail poll it has ever conducted. More than 117,000 replies overwhelmed the ballot counters, who reported that sentiment solidly supported sharp cuts in all taxes-property, sales and income. The Boston Herald American in a similar poll found that about 80% of responding readers backed a proposal to place a lid on property taxes at 2.5% of market value. A bill...
Every month, Grandfather Jack, 68, and Grandmother Claire, 66, receive two checks in the mail. Jack's green Social Security check is for $195. He also gets a gold Supplemental Security Income check of $37.28 (of which $34.48 comes from Massachusetts, $2.80 from HEW). Based on her late husband's earnings, Claire's Social Security check is for $177, and her Supplemental Security check is for $55.28 (of which HEW contributes $20.80). The two grandparents get a chance to eat out at meal sites run by a state-administered program set up under HEW'S Older...
...most of her life, writes Mina Curtiss, she had an incurable obsession: she could not resist reading other people's mail. When she was a child, Mina was caught going through her mother's love letters in the attic. Shortly after she returned from her honeymoon, she read her husband's letters from his first wife. "I was convinced," she explains, "that the clue to the secret of life, the creative process, lay in personal letters intended for somebody else." Finally, in middle age, she turned her disreputable habit to professional use. In 1947 the sneak reader...
...when the West mounted a similar rescue mission to save 1,300 whites stranded in Stanleyville (now Kisangani) during the Congo's Simba rebellion. But they were still acutely aware that the enduring problem was that of a continent unable to govern its own affairs. As the Zambia Daily Mail observed, "The almost casual ease with which European powers can fly into an African country and airlift its nationals or occupy whole towns is making the very concept of African independence meaningless...