Word: postal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...policy of conciliation toward Japan. With Soong out of the way, at least for a time, Chiang went the limit last week and announced regular railway service would be reestablished on Nov. 10 between China and Manchukuo for the first time in two years. He hinted that postal service would soon be restored, thus pointing to virtual acquiescence by China in the land grab by which Japan seized Manchuria and set it up as the puppet state Manchukuo...
Mayor Richard M. Russell '14 yesterday asked the assistance of Senator David I. Walsh in persuading the postal authorities to build the new Cambridge Postoffice of granite instead of limestones so as to give New England stone cutters additional employment...
...with the Cuban system a few years later. In 1920, after a deal with A. T. & T. had enabled them to lay a cable from Cuba to Key West, they formed I. T. & T. When they leaped into world prominence in 1928 by getting control of the Mackay-Postal telegraph system, they had already spun their web over most of South America, rehabilitated the telephones of Paris and Shanghai, helped to precipitate the Spanish revolution by giving Spaniards good telephones...
...Herbermann procured for his line a ten-year ocean mail contract at $1,044,000 per year. When his new ships began to operate Walter Brown, then Postmaster General, increased this subsidy to $2,185,000 per year. But Export Steamship was not overburdened with postal cargo. From August 1928 to June 1929 its ships carried precisely three pounds of mail, a cost to the Government of $234,980 per Ib. In 1929 it carried one pound of mail for $115,335. For fiscal 1931 it carried eight pounds of mail for $125,820 per Ib. Its defense was that...
...postal workers be blamed for wondering why they must always fill the role of shock troops? A Bilbo, clipping newspapers at a desk lor $6,000 a year, gets no applause from a sub carrier, trying to exist at $8-or less-a week...