Word: mailmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hour. For a delivery, he leaves his scooter contentedly burbling at the curb, manages to save not only foot-power but some 23% of the time formerly needed to cover his route. His superior, Superintendent of Mails B. H. Kaigler, intends to recommend the scooter's adoption for mailmen in residential districts everywhere...
...politics had only a self-conscious interest for the country mailmen. As Civil Servants they were more interested in swapping notes on how to give "Service with a Smile" (their Association's motto) ; in swapping routes (a man from Maine exchanging with an Arizonian if their local postmasters approved); in boasting about the number of boxes they visit (Mrs. Annie Massey, 53, of Bay Springs, Miss. on one stretch of her 50 mi., 165-box route, has to travel 17 miles and cross: eleven bridges in an area of one squre mile); in marveling at the streamlined never-stick...
...such positions are not particularly logical or observant. Therefore it was only after several terrifying seconds that our hero observed that his strange guest was only a mailman tendering a special delivery letter. Ever since he has been biterly cursing the paternalism of this administration, which makes mailmen so solicitous...