Word: postal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should fail to read, a request from a magazine editor for his views on the Younger Generation, three complaints from parents of the faulty instruction and unjust treatment their sons are receiving, two explosions from alumni who are rabid because the team lost the last big game, and a postal card from 'A Citizen and Taxpayer' denouncing the whole institution as a sink of iniquity and a breeder of irreligion and sedition...
...first and larger of these, a collection of 8000 specimens from eastern and southern China, is the work of J. D. LaTouche, formerly a member of the Chinese Postal Service, and is the result of over forty years of work. During this time, LaTouche was stationed at a number of different posts, and with the assistance of his Chinese, whom he had trained especially in the preparation of specimens, amassed this collection, which is not equalled by any collection of Chinese birds either here or abroad. It forms the basis for his handbook of birds of eastern China; of which...
...Federal Reserve bank delivered $5,000,000 in currency. W. T. Waggoner, oldtime Texas cowman and oil millionaire, told the crowd his millions were behind the bank; the governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas arrived, announced all the resources of the Federal Reserve were behind the bank. Postal savings officials, to whom panicky depositors had brought withdrawn funds, put some $25,000 of this money back in the bank, a U. S. depository. By 11 p. m., $300,000 had been withdrawn, but the crowd grew weary, went home...
...Postmaster General under President Benjamin Harrison (1889-93), he "established pneumatic tubes, ship-posts, pioneered for rural delivery, parcels post, postal savings, and fought for government ownership of telegraph and telephone." In 1896 he bought out A. T. Stewart, went into business in Manhattan...
Agitation for the reduction of telephone tolls has long sputtered fitfully among U. S. newspapers. The press, largest user of both Postal and Western Union wires, is accorded two cut-rate services: Day Press Rate (? full rate) and Night Press Rate (1/6 full rate). Although newspapers do not use telephones for long distance communication to the extent they use the telegraph, publishers feel they deserve a reduced tariff for certain services comparable...