Word: postalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proclamation of Governor David Sholtz all Florida last week celebrated a holiday in commemoration of Recovery. Things that made Floridians rejoice: ¶ Bank clearings up 35% over 1933. ¶ Construction up 132%. ¶ Postal receipts up 19%. ¶ Newspaper advertising up 26.6%. ¶ Railroad traffic...
Promptly at noon a postal official slit open the first bid and read it aloud. Others followed, to the scratch of an accountant's pen writing down their contents. Most of the old-line companies blossomed out with a minor change in name-part of the Farley program for corporate reorganization. Eastern Air Transport became Eastern Air Lines. Transcontinental & Western Air put three new periods into its abbreviated title. American Airways switched to American Air Lines. Only Western Air Express made a major change by becoming General Air Lines. Because its previous contracts were held under the names...
...brought down criticism on the Administration for cutting pay and laying off men while Industry was ordered to do the reverse. When Mr. Farley left the President he went back to his office and issued an announcement: "Improved business conditions have resulted in a substantial increase in postal revenues. . . . I feel justified in revoking, effective May 1, my order for payless furloughs...
...telephone in case anyone in the family is kidnapped. The Department of Labor has sleuths who track down immigration irregularities, turn up alien wrongdoers. Famed for their relentlessness are the Post Office Department inspectors, prepared to spend a day or a lifetime bringing to justice mail robbers, perpetrators of postal frauds. The Treasury has a bureau of customs to prevent smuggling, a bureau of narcotics to combat dope peddlers. Its income tax intelligence unit ferrets out tax evaders. There are special agents in the Department of Agriculture to investigate violations of the Pure Food & Drugs Act, in the State Department...
After tortured weeks of criticism and recrimination, the Post Office Department was ready to hand the airmail back to private enterprise, thus relieving the Army of its ill-starred postal duties.* Pending permanent airmail legislation Postmaster General Farley invited private carriers to bid on three-month renewable contracts for 17 routes comprising some 18,000 miles of the 24,000 miles flown before the Feb. 9 cancellation order. Bids were to be submitted within 15 days by companies able to begin operations 30 days after obtaining contracts. Rates must be no higher than 45? per airplane mile...