Word: postal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last count, there were 72 princes and princesses of Liechtenstein, which is eleven more highnesses than there are square miles in the minuscule principality. Luckily for the postal system, only a dozen Von und zu Liechtensteins actually live in Liechtenstein. Indeed, it was not until 1937 that a hereditary ruler actually made his home in the drafty, 13th century family fortress, whose battlements rise starkly above the capital of Vaduz (pronounced Vah-dootz). There last week, amid eulogies and thunderous renditions of Heil Liechtenstein, Franz Josef II Maria Aloys Alfred Karl Johannes Heinrich Michael Georg Ignatius Benediktus Gerhardus Majella...
...other robbers smashed their way into the engine cab and knocked Engineer Mills cold. Coming to, Mills found that the locomotive and the first two cars had been uncoupled. He was ordered to proceed slowly up the track, leaving the 65 postal clerks in the abandoned cars unaware that anything was wrong. After about half a mile, a white blur emerged - it was a white sheet stretched between poles. "Here it is!" cried one bandit, and ordered Mills to halt atop Bridego Bridge. A truck waited below. The masked mobsters meanwhile had broken into the High Value coach, forced...
...bound for London's Euston station, 401 miles to the south. Aboard were 70 employees of the General Post Office, locked into twelve maroon-colored coaches, each bearing the royal coat of arms and the royal cipher, E R II. As they sped along at 80 m.p.h., the postal clerks busily sorted letters from hundreds of mailbags scooped up from gantries en route. In the "High Value" coach right behind the diesel locomotive, five particularly experienced sorters were on duty, sealed into their car with a pre cious cargo of $7,145,600 in bank notes, many of them...
...about equality in job opportunities: "Now we're saying this: if two men, one Negro and one white, are equally qualified for a job, hire the Negro." Actually, Negroes may already be doing even better than that in the Federal Government. A Texas Congressman charged that three Negro postal employees in Dallas had been promoted over 53 whites with higher civil service ratings...
...same day. Day's recently inaugurated Zone Improvement Plan (ZIP), using five-digit codes affixed by the sender, is designed to speed mail service by pinpointing exactly how the letter should be routed-through one of ten U.S. regions, and on to states, cities, towns, postal zones or even large office buildings. Already in use by advertising mailers, ZIP eliminates as many as six separate handlings, and, says Day, will save the Post Office $15 million in its first year. The Post Office will soon begin using still another Day innovation: air mail stamps printed with magnetized...