Word: postalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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American Telephone & Telegraph, Western Union and Postal Telegraph rushed armies of troubleshooters into the field to unscramble their wrecked wires and poles. After 24 hours A. T. & T. reported more than 351,000 telephones still dead. Newspaper plants were awash; broadcasting stations went silent for lack of power as operators scampered to higher ground (see p. 59). Hampered in their movements, forced to guess wildly at the extent of death and damage, overwhelmed newshawks sent reports marked by the breadth and sweep of war dispatches...
Fortnight ago in Syracuse, N. Y., a postal clerk came upon a parcel addressed to "Comrade Chancellor Charles Flint, Syracuse University." When the parcel gave off a muffled tick, the clerk turned white as a miller, rushed the parcel to the postmaster. The postmaster sent for the police. The police sent for a Department of Justice expert on infernal machines. The expert dunked the parcel in a pail of water, prodded it with a long pole, gingerly took it apart. Disclosed was an arrangement of cardboard tubes, cotton wadding, piano wire, an alarm clock works and some sort of granulated...
Investigation disclosed that the parcel had been mailed from the nearby University postal station. While Syracusans last week gossiped excitedly about the bold "Communist" student plot against the life of conservative, close-mouthed Chancellor Flint, up stepped a timid undergraduate in the University's School of Architecture to name himself and 25 fellow-students as senders of the "bomb." Haled into court to face charges of disorderly conduct, the 25 students sheepishly explained that they had merely wanted to have some fun, pointed out that the "bomb" was harmless. The white powder: sugar. Federal authorities scratched their heads, admitted...
...South American business men took note of an announcement from U. S. postal officials that the Clipper schedule between Miami and Buenos Aires will be reduced this spring from 5½ to 4½ days...
...cycles wide-enough to carry the fluctuating light & shadow of television. The possibility therefore arose of "piping" television from city to city underground. A. T. & T. applied to the Federal Communications Commission for permission to install an experimental coaxial pipe between Manhattan and Philadelphia. Western Union, Postal Telegraph and certain cinemagnates objected, raised a monopoly scare. The Commission ruled that A. T. & T. might install the cable only under heavy restrictions. At these the company balked (TIME...