Word: post
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Colorado mountains like an old hound dog on a cold trail. In the quiet at 11,000 feet, when the wind is right, Postmaster Gus Latham can hear the train coming about an hour before it arrives. Marshall Pass (pop. 11) is the U.S.'s smallest post office. Gus, who has lived in Marshall Pass for the last 21 of his 64 years, has been postmaster since 1943. Said Gus: "I get maybe six letters a week, maybe nine. Maybe one package...
...Sure Do." Last week Gus arrived in New York, a tall, weather-tough man with crinkled eyes and a face reddened in the high mountain winds. He proudly donned his postmasters' convention badge, dutifully attended the sessions, listened gravely as Postmaster General Jesse M. Donaldson declared that the post office faced a record $550 million deficit, that Congress should overhaul its "horse & buggy rates." Penny postcards, Donaldson pointed out, cost the department 2.6? to print, sell, and handle, and 95% of them are sold to advertisers who flood the mails with them "by the billions." Gus nodded soberly...
Politis joined the Athens Communist Party several years ago and was given a job guarding the premises of the party newspaper. A Year ago he was promoted to the post of district leader in the Lake Koumoundourou area just ten kilometers from Athens...
...Guard Emil Drvaric, tackle Skip Garvey, and end Walt Coulson are taking medical school exams, while tackle Doug Bradlee and guard Sam Butler are out with injuries. Will Davis will take over Bradlee's tackle position, Dick Guidera spelling him on defense. Jerry Kanter will fill Butler's defensive post in the middle of the line...
...record since then has been clean, if not startling. This does not mean he will breeze in, however. Dever has the political bright fortune to be a self-made man who worked his way through school to become state Attorney General in 1935. In this post he busted trusts, pulled down $8,000,000 for the Commonwealth on the Brink case alone, and piled up a record that was 95 percent victorious. In 1940 Dev-came within 5,588 votes of the Governorship and lost as lieutenant governor by only 6,787 six years later...