Word: postmarks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is only one official U.S. function that a Government monopoly entrusts to a private monopoly. The company is Connecticut's Pitney-Bowes, Inc. P-B makes, sells, rents and services the postage metering machines* that print and postmark more than $1 billion worth of stamps on business mail every year. This not only saves millions in postal handling costs for the U.S., but it brings to P-B exceptionally high profits of 9? per revenue dollar. P-B announced this week that 1958 earnings rose 7% to $4.4 million on gross income of $51.3 million. P-B will...
...should be suspected of the murder [of Milton J. Cohen, 59-year-old co-owner of the city's most fashionable women's shop] : Name __________. Address ___________, Or full description _________. For following reasons _________________." The form made clear that "in case of duplicate information, the letter bearing the earliest postmark will have priority." The prize...
...compounds. Christian worship is forbidden, and services must be conducted surreptitiously by a priest who flies in from Bahrein and gives his profession as "teacher." Both Aramco and the U.S. military advisory groups are forbidden to have Jewish employees, and an American who receives a letter with an Israeli postmark is deported. The ban on liquor is partly circumvented by the construction of home stills in many a ranch house, and by black-marketing which makes Scotch available in Jiddah at $40 a bottle. "We have only one thing in common," said one Aramco employee dispassionately. "They have...
Last week, as Paris polished its sneers on the eve of a new tourist season, Ranville and his undaunted knights launched a nationwide eight-day "Crusade of Amiability." The national post office issued a special postmark to commemorate the occasion. Schoolchildren gathered in a shivering rain at the Arc de Triomphe to release hundreds of tricolored balloons carrying the message of bonhomie. A squad of pretty girls scoured Paris looking for outstanding examples of courtesy, and that ancient charmer, Maurice Chevalier himself, cut a symbolic ribbon to release the tide of amiability that promised to engulf the land. Even France...
...then left without handing in a blue-book. When University officials called him in several days later, demanding to know where the missing examination was, he indignantly replied that he certainly had handed it in and suggested that a proctor must have misplaced it. He even presented a postmarked postcard as evidence that he had actually handed in a book. There seemed nothing for the University to do but grant him a make-up test--nothing, that is, until someone happened to glance at the postmark again. The card had been mailed three hours before the examination began...