Word: postes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Worth noting is the fact that while the Post runs many stage and screen articles, that great entertainment medium the radio is almost never featured...
...under no circumstances, by formal prearrangement. The Post occasionally subsidizes a favorite author by buying a poor story and never printing it, but unlike Collier's and Liberty it maintains no stable. However, when the editors and a veteran writer talk over and agree on a piece, it is rare that it is not accepted...
...people know that for years just below the sidewalks of Manhattan has run the 27 miles of tubes system through which mail-filled carriers are transported between 22 city post offices from the Battery to 125th Street and over to Brooklyn through a pipe fastened to Brooklyn Bridge. Curiously, a private company owns and operates the system with the Post Office as its sole customer. It is, with a two-mile stretch in Boston, the last survivor of similar lines that once operated busily in Philadelphia, St. Louis, Chicago. Last week it looked as if Manhattan's system might...
From profitable Post Office contracts, pneumatic tubes prospered until the War. Then Postmaster General Albert Sidney Burleson, President Wilson's man-Farley for eight years, persuaded his chief over a golf game to veto the $1,000,000 annual appropriation for ''letters shot through pipes"-Republican pipes. Not until 1922 during the Harding administration were Manhattan's tubes reopened...
...football season flared up and sputtered out for good last week on 1938's first day when 14 teams met in well-ballyhooed post-season games. Six were Bowl games, a unique U. S. institution founded for the purpose of publicizing southern winter resorts. The seventh was a game for charity, between picked players from Eastern and Western colleges.* played at San Francisco for the 13th year for the benefit of the Shriners' Hospital for Crippled Children...