Word: postalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Communications. For the last year the Post Office Department has been begging Congress to increase the first-class postal rate to make that letter service self-sustaining. So unpopular was the request that not a single Congressman could be found to introduce the necessary legislation. Yet last week the House upped the rate from 2¢ to 3¢ without a struggle. Estimated yield...
Like the Epsom Derby, the Manchester November Handicap, the Grand National is the subject of world-wide lotteries. This year U. S. newssheets were warned by the postal authorities that they would be prosecuted for advertising lotteries if they published the names of lottery winners in mail editions. Many a paper published the names of winners last week in their city editions but did not brave...
...Passed five bills designed to increase postal revenues by $11,750,000 per year by upping registered mail fees, C. O. D. fees, domestic money order fees, opening parcel post to publications in bulk and charging publishers a second-class entry...
...House Ways & Means Committee had drafted, without politics or partisanship, a bill to raise by taxation $1,096,000,000 above current receipts. To make up the difference the committee anticipated a $125,000,000 cut in Government expenses and a $25,000,000 increase in postal income. If all worked well, which it rarely does, the Treasury would squeak through 1933 with $5,000,000 to spare. The new or increased taxes before the House and the estimated revenue from each were...
Born. To Irving Berlin, song writer, and Ellin Mackay Berlin, daughter of Clarence Hungerford Mackay, board chairman of Postal Telegraph Co.; a second daughter. Weight...