Word: post
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while the actress and her Red put on skis, started down a steep slope in the direction of the Soviet frontier and disappeared in gathering darkness. Japanese frontier patrols, summoned by the driver, found no trace of the ski-elopers, said they had apparently made for a Soviet frontier post about a mile from the spot where they started their slide...
Lieber Meister. An erect, impudent youngster of 18, Frank Lloyd Wright arrived in Chicago in the spring of 1887 with three years of engineering school behind him in Madison. U. S. architecture was then on the rise from a period of post-Civil War jerry-building, and with the death of a great and sound Easterner, Henry Hobson Richardson, the year before, Chicago, rising from its ruins, had become the centre of excitement. Richardson's successor as No. i U. S. architect was an immaculate, brown-eyed little French-Irishman of haughty brilliance named Louis Henry Sullivan. Young Frank...
...York News has 1,600,000 daily circulation and the courage of its errors. It pours more ashes in its beard in a year than most other journals do in a generation. Last week the News was at it again. Postmaster General Farley had just announced that the Post Office had lost $46,614,723 in the year ending June 30, 1937. but had it not handled second-class mail (papers & periodicals) for a $89,148,809 loss it would have made...
...hours the President had his answer from the American Newspaper Publishers Association. It took a quick sense of its postal committee and solemnly denied that second-class privileges amount to a subsidy. "Charges of private agencies of transportation and distribution" are "far less than those of the Post Office for the same service," says...
...Post Office Handling Cost Payments By Publications Loss to Post Office Daily Newspapers.... $38,001,739 8,999,158 2,9002,581 All other Newspapers..... 14, 293,411 2,99,241 11,294,170 Magazines.... 35,583,007 9,246,108 24,336,899 Philanthropic, Fraternal papers, etc... .18,512,038 1,903,590 16,608,448 Papers free in country... 7,906,711 none 7,906,711 Total Government Loss...