Word: postals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...handled much faster if about the standard international card catalog size; 7.5 x 12.5 cm. (just under 3x5 inches). We all know what a nuisance are the bedquilt Bank of England notes. Our the smaller bed-size is vastly more convenient. If this were again reduced to postal size,, it would still give space 'for all needed printing and would be much quicker in handling, much more compact in money drawers. and safes and, constantly kept flat, would wear five times as The original library card catalog was on ¼ sheets of foolscap. Experience, showed it to be very...
Last week, Postmaster General Harry S. New gave out the data for Post Office receipts in June. The reason they are of any special interest is because, early last spring, after a great fight, Congress passed a bill which increased the salaries of postal employes (to the tune of about'$68,000,000 a year) and increased revenues in a way to furnish an equal amount of additional revenue (TIME...
...course, any estimate based on these figures as to how nearly the postal receipts will balance expenditures for the current year is the merest guess. But the figures quoted would indicate a deficit of something like $40,000,000, which is due, of course, to the legislation passed by the last Congress affecting both pay and rates...
...President also signed a bill creating a Department of Communications, which henceforth is to be in charge of Cuban postal and telegraph services...
...During the fiscal year, our expenditures, exciusive of the moneys applied to the reduction of the public debt and the operations of the Postal Service, amounted to $5,116,000,000. Our public debt then amounted to $23,977,000,000. We are now nearing the close of the fiscal year 1925. The expenditures for this fiscal year will amount in round figures to $3,035,000,000, and the public debt will stand at approximately...