Word: postal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their appraised value would put $22,000,000 into the Treasury but it was unlikely that they could be marketed quickly. The savings on maintenance will be small. To the Rapidan President Hoover called Postmaster General Brown and the four Assistant Postmasters General to see what economies the postal service could stand. This year's postal deficit will be around $140,000,000. Considered were proposals to increase the first-class postage rate from 2? to 2½?, cut down on the subsidies for air and ocean mail. Because of slack business the Post Office Department this year will...
...Postal Bulletin, issued under direction of the Postmaster General, in its latest issue contains the following: "Discontinued-Fourth Class
...Diego 8:10 a.m. Return trip: Leave San Diego 10:15 p.m., arrive Los Angeles 11:30 p.m., San Francisco 3:30 a.m., Seattle n a.m. The season's opening was also marked by the climax of a sharp fight between Western Union and Postal Telegraph Co. for the exclusive rights to sell airline tickets at their branch offices. Last week Western Union had made contracts with 18 airlines, to Postal's ten. But Postal's list represented 57,000 mi. of airway to Western Union...
...convention gravely assembled, the publishers delivered themselves of three wordily ambitious resolutions: i) that the Federal Radio Act be amended to subject radio broadcasters to the same stringent regulations against lottery and gift-prize advertisements as now apply to newspapers in the postal laws; 2) that broadcasts of news be confined to press associations and newspapers; and that radio programs be published by newspapers as paid advertising only; 3) that the legality of "Government protected" broadcasting of direct advertising on exclusively assigned wavelengths be questioned as unfair competition...
...Public Service Ticket Office Inc.; of heart disease; in Manhattan. A Hungarian Jew, he was the first ticket broker to buy up blocks of seats, sell them at cut rates. Early this year he took over the distribution system planned by the League of New York Theatres with Postal Telegraph-Cable Co. to reduce ticket speculation. Through his agencies, his real estate deals, his backing of Broadway productions he accumulated some $20,000,000. Among many plays which he saved from failure: Rose Marie, Abie's Irish Rose, The Cat and the Canary...