Word: posting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whatever little guidance and direction there is in American policy has undeniably come from Secretary Dulles. Little has emerged from the planning board of the department nor has there been any but post facto consultation with the Senate through the Committee on Foreign Relations, long moribund under Senator Green...
...Secretary Dulles is not able to resume an active role in foreign affairs, however, Cheever indicated that it might be necessary to sacrifice his familiarity with the strategy of the State Department and appoint a "more striking public figure to the Secretary's post for reasons of public confidence." He suggested such names as Gen. Alfred Gruenther, Henry Cabot Lodge '24, John J. McCloy, former High Commissioner to Germany, and David K. E. Bruce, Ambassador to Germany...
Another machine, now going into the U.S. postal system, shuffles a mountain of mail so that each stamp faces in the right direction, then postmarks and cancels 500 stamps a minute, double what a man can do. Next November the Post Office will get a 75-ft. long P-B mail sorter by which twelve operators each can sort 720 letters a minute-triple the manual rate. Each letter passes on a conveyor belt before the eyes of a postal worker, who pushes keys to direct it to one of 300 cubbyholes. Now P-B's scientists are tinkering...
Wheeler developed new machines and plugged them with ads such as "Flora May figured to save Paw's shirt" (because he always lost his shirt playing red dog with the boys around the post office, Flora May bought him a postage machine instead). He also made a name for himself as a liberal businessman...
...machine has a detachable meter that can be set to stop printing at any point. The user takes the meter to the post office, buys the amount of postage he wants: the meter is set to stop after that amount is used, then is sealed...