Word: postals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year ago last week, Florida's bank clearings, construction, postal receipts, newspaper advertising, railroad traffic had rebounded so high that the State, by Governor Sholtz's proclamation, celebrated a holiday in honor of Recovery. This year Floridians have still greater cause for rejoicing. By final reckonings their biggest business, tourists, was best since the boom days of 1925-26. During the winter, 1,750,000 visitors, a quarter million more than last year, had spent $625,000,000. On horse and greyhound racetracks 2,000,000 persons had bet $36,500,000, up $7,500,000 from last...
...Herbert Hyman Hornstein, highbrowed Brown University graduate in the class of 1932, was arrested in Los Angeles. He had passed a $20 bill recognized as part of $129,000 stolen from a U.S. mail truck in Fall River, Mass, last Jan. 23. Herbert Hornstein's talk set U.S. postal inspectors on the trail of Carl Rettich and his suave, handsome henchman, Andino Merola. One day last fortnight they followed the pair from Providence to Worcester, Mass., lost them there. That night Andino Merola's corpse was found filled with bullets beside a road near Wrentham, Mass. Next...
About a month ago Denver postmen began to grumble at the loads they were lugging. Postal receipts at the Denver Post Office for April climbed dizzily and more than 100 extra hands were called in for full-time service to help handle the swelling volume of first-class mail. An amazing number of dimes began to pop out of the stamp-canceling machines. Finally it was discovered that a "Send-a-Dime" chain letter was sweeping the city. Completely swamped, Postmaster James Orren Stevic called in postal inspectors to investigate the possibilities of stopping the scheme as fraudulent. "The thing...
...members. He does not receive any dimes until after his letters have multiplied six times and his name has moved to the top of the list. Then if the chain is unbroken, he will receive no less than 15,625 dimes ($1,562.50). Chain letters fall afoul of the Postal regulations because if the chain is broken the participants are guilty of making promises they cannot keep. And there is nothing to prevent a sharper from making a handsome profit by mailing out 10,000 letters with his name at the top of each list...
This setup tactful Poles called a democracy, a dictatorship and a republic in one. In Toledo last week suave Dr. Henryk Gruber, who will soon return to his Warsaw job as President of the Postal Savings Bank of Poland, hailed "our new Constitution-one of the most democratic constitutions in Europe! It introduces a New Deal in Poland...