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Word: postals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Postal Shift. Because of the outcry that was raised at revelation of how Kreuger & Toll, acting with full legal rights, had shifted the collateral behind its bonds, the New York Stock Exchange lately passed a rule that it must be notified immediately of such changes. More than two years ago Postal Telegraph & Cable made such a shift. It removed and retired Commercial Cable Co.'s first mortgage bonds and debenture stock, replacing them with Commercial Cable unsecured notes. The amount involved was about $20,000.000. Leading statistical services have been aware of the change, as have sharp-eyed investors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Deals & Developments | 5/23/1932 | See Source »

...Postal Telegraph bonds, of which some $50,000,000 are outstanding, last week sold at 15¢ on the $1 against a 1932 high of 39¢. In 1931 the company had its gross business fall only 8% against the total drop of 16% in U. S. telegraph business but its cable and wireless business was off sharply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Deals & Developments | 5/23/1932 | See Source »

...TIME . . . fair and impartial in all things . . . make such a brazen misstatement as that in your article, issue of April 11, headed "Taxation," subhead "Communications." "Post Office Department begging Congress to increase first-class postal rate to make that service self- sustaining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Safe Medusa | 5/2/1932 | See Source »

...most casual inspection of the annual operating statements of the Postal Department would reveal the illuminating fact that first-class (letters) is the only service to show a profit-that it nets the Government from 50 to 90 millions of profit annually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Safe Medusa | 5/2/1932 | See Source »

...would the House tax bill raise that amount? There was some doubt about it last week. The Ways & Means Committee estimated that its measure would produce $1,032,400,000 extra cash; reductions in budgeted expenditures for 1933 were figured at another $200,000,000 and minor postal rate increases at $30,500,000. Thus by increasing receipts and cutting expenditures the Treasury would receive a total of $1,262,900,000 more than it now is getting, or $21,900,000 above Budget-balancing requirements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: House Jugglers | 4/11/1932 | See Source »

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