Word: parcell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Makers of tabulating machines refused to see why the Census Bureau should manufacture and repair its apparatus. Printers violently objected to the Post Office's merchandising stamped and printed return envelopes at the rate of 10,000,000 per day. Railway Express Agency wanted to put the parcel post system out of business because it operated for less than cost.* Architects contended that the Treasury was hogging the design of new public buildings. Brokers in farm products were bitterly resentful against the Farm Board's activities...
This current criticism of the banking system is part and parcel of the whole interesting tendency toward the socialization of private business. For long this tendency has been going on, but it is such catastrophes as the present depression which serve to bring it to a head. In such times, it becomes clear to all that in certain fields of commerce, free competition is undesirable. In these fields the prime requisite is stability and security. Even if some of the much vaunted freedom of action which is the essence of the capitalistic system must be abridged to secure these, still...
Died. Frederick Fremont Ingram, 76, "Father of the U. S. Parcel Post System," founder of Detroit's Frederick F. Ingram & Co. (pharmaceutical products); in San Diego, Calif...
...equal to its rental value would be imposed on all land not immediately occupied by its owner. Such a levy would deprive absentee landlords of their rent. Land would tend to revert to the State which would parcel it out among workers and farmers...
Mexico. I sent the rug to Albuquerque and have the receipt of the postmaster there that the parcel was delivered all right...