Word: postalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Puerto-Rican adventure, had acquired most of the telephone business of South America, had obtained a complete monopoly in Spain from His Most Catholic Majesty Alfonso XIII, had rebuilt the telephones of Paris and Shanghai, had obtained the backing of J. P. Morgan & Co. With the acquisition of Mackay-Postal it became the second largest communication company in the world.* Last week Mr. Behn became a director of L. M. Ericsson Telephone Co., potent Swedish manufacturers of electrical equipment and operators of telephone systems in Sweden, Europe, Mexico, South America. And I. T. & T. increased its voting interest...
...public had never heard of him and even among bankers and industrialists his name meant little when, suddenly in 1928, Sosthenes Behn became master of Mackay-Postal telegraph system. When editors cried for a picture of the new successor to the late romantic silver-mining telegraph tycoon John William Mackay, all they could get was a fusty photograph of a man with a beard. This they printed only to be told that Sosthenes Behn had removed his beard some years before. But soon the public learned a lot about Sosthenes Behn...
...Passed a House bill to continue for another year the 1? per gal. gasoline tax, to reduce local postage from 3? to 2?, to authorize the President to adjust other postal rates as he sees fit; sent it to conference. The House bill transferred the 3% electricity tax from consumer to producer. The Senate bill put a 2% tax on the producer of commercial and domestic electricity, a i% tax on the industrial consumer...
...reason why most of the literary instruction gyp games are not wiped out is because it takes either an expert or someone who has been stung to see where the gyp is. Evidently federal postal authorities never write fiction...
...employes. One of every 20 applicants for Federal service is found to have had a criminal record. New York City required fingerprints of its civil service employes when it was found that one applicant was taking the physical examinations, a second the mental examination, a third the job & pay. Postal Savings requires fingerprints of all depositors. Many banks do likewise for illiterate depositors, foreign draft buyers and safety deposit vault renters. Many corporations (notably insurance companies) fingerprint job applicants. Some hospitals are beginning to footprint newborn babes for identification...