Word: postalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last autumn the first-class postal rate to every nation in the Eastern Hemisphere save Spain, which belongs to the Pan-American Postal Union, was upped to 5? for the first ounce in an attempt to bring first-class revenue closer to actual transportation cost (TIME, Aug. 31). Last week's announced increases raise the old 2? rate to Latin America and Spain to 3?. The Post Office department expects to gain $2,000,000 in revenue by higher rates...
...would suggest, however, one slight remedy for this unavailability of books. The library's only method of calling in books from officers of the University is by means of a postal card. Books called for by students have been reported out to professors for as long as ten years, although such a period of time is unusual. Most instructors and professors do keep out a large number of library books, however, and for long periods of time--longer than is necessary even for such an crudite faculty. More stringent regulations would easily eliminate this, and not cause overmuch annoyance...
...cars than during the entire 1931 Show. Aiding Hudson was a unique publicity stunt. At one swoop 1,207.500 telegrams were sent to persons owning Hudsons and Essexes or cars in similar ranges, urging them to visit the Hudson showrooms. The telegraphing was done by a special arrangement with Postal Telegraph-Cable, a master telegram being sent to about 700 cities, copied there for local distribution...
...Postal Clerk John B. House, 50, standing next to young Clerk Werkheiser, had heard the men arguing. He saw Werkheiser start opening one of the packages. . . . That was the last he knew until he found himself, in an agony of mortal pain and bloody numbness, being trundled out of the post office on a hand truck. Clerk Werkheiser, an arm and a leg blown away, was being trundled out on another truck. The post office was a wreck? bundles, letters, glass, splinters and debris hurled every which way. The two clerks, mangled and beyond recovery, managed to gasp out details...
This year Postmaster General Brown was informed that an unknown business house in New York was sending 1,000,000 pieces of Christmas advertising to Santa Claus for remailing. "General" Brown ordered extra men and postal equipment to the village to handle the rush. Then the firm changed its mind, decided to mail from home. Thoroughly annoyed, the Postmaster General last week announced that his department had had enough of this foolishness and that on Jan. 1 the name of the Santa Claus post office would be changed to something more commonplace...