Word: postmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vaccine, Britain was taking its flu lying down. An estimated 60,000 children in England and Wales were out of school. In several Midland industrial towns, transport workers were sick and bus service had to be curtailed. In Sheffield a third of the telephone operators were out, and 100 postmen took to their beds, leaving university students to fill in for them. Two British submarines were pulled out of NATO maneuvers because their crews had been...
...interdepartmental squabble developed here today when the Army decided that postmen were not immune from restrictions which prohibit persons from approaching Central High School...
POSTAL WORKERS' WAGES will not go up in near future, although House Post Office and Civil Service Committee okayed $546 yearly raise for about 500,000 postmen. Measure stands scant chance in budget-whacking Congress, but even if it passes, President Eisenhower will veto...
...cries of support for Summerfield began to come in from postmen who were worried about their pay-and voters who were worried about their mail-Congressmen began to recall that the mail is one Government service that reaches almost every constituent almost every day. The day after Summerfield's press conference, the Appropriations Committee turned tail, voted to reconsider his request. In a second press conference, the Postmaster General announced that his proposed cutbacks would not take effect until this weekend -the day after the committee is scheduled to make up its mind about that other $30 million...
...Pentagon warriors and civil servants, the Army had a holiday message last week: if you want to wish the man at the next desk Merry Christmas, do it personally this year-don't send a card. Reason for the new regulation: the labyrinthine Pentagon's footsore postmen already carry all the mail they can handle. Signing the regulation: Old Foot Soldier Maxwell D. Taylor, Army Chief of Staff...