Word: mailmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stench of decay was recognizable in Parisian cinemas where newsreel audiences booed and jeered an endless procession of politicos marching vainly into the Palais Bourbon to argue and temporize. Railway workers, bus drivers, mailmen, stagehands, customs inspectors, garbage collectors, undertakers and thousands of other French workers walked out in a paralyzing general strike, leaving Paris streets empty of buses and littered with trash. Unless the government can persuade the Bank of France to lend it 250 billion francs, it will not be able even to meet its next civil-service payroll...
Across the U.S. the effect was instantaneous and anguished. Wailed the New Rochelle (N.Y.) Standard Star: CITY MAILMEN WON'T RING EVEN ONCE. Some 1,000 of New York City's 35,000 postal workers were threatened with being laid off this week, and there were grim predictions of an unholy traffic tangle, as 6,000,000 pieces of Saturday mail piled up in New York City post offices alone. Growled the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer: "Mr. Summerfield's sitdown strike has become unbecoming and disrespectful." Some political critics were unkind enough to recall the 1952 Republican platform...
...FOOTSORE MAILMEN will get welcome relief. Post Office is calling for bids for 1,500 three-wheeled motor scooters (painted red, white and blue) for postmen in residential areas where houses are widely spaced. Also coming, for carriers whose routes are not quite so long: 2,000 bicycles, 6,000 aluminum caddy carts...
Within a week, the Informer's circulation has risen from 500 to several million, and sweating mailmen are dragging love letters by sackfuls into the office. Apart from the great Figg feature, the Informer also gives some coverage to a British scientist who is suspected of having decamped Eastward with his nation's newest secret war weapon-electric eels. Another informative Informer expose concerns a movement called Ethical Recreation (which may remind some readers of Moral Re-Armament); its leader, Dr. Sloper, ministers chiefly to the rich, since "the poor are always Christian, they can't afford...
...existing mailboxes in the old freshman dormitories are located above the first floor and they have only narrow slits through which postmen must drop letters. The mailmen have not only been forced to climb an extra distance, but cannot deliver especially large letters, and must throw magazines on the floor, open to theft...