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...Post staffers, the pause was less than refreshing. Back to rewrite went Roving Reporter Robert W. ("Fearless") Fenwick. Crime Editor Gene Lowall (TIME, Oct. 31, 1949) was pulled out of his private office to spend half-days on rewrite. So was Drama & Music Critic Alex Murphree. Postmen on assignment in other cities and in Europe and Asia were ordered back to Denver, and all overtime work was banned. Reporters wondered when the pause would...
...farmers complained because they could not sell their properties except at state-fixed prices. There was no unemployment or serious want, but wage and salary earners worked at income levels which smothered incentive: a ship's cook often earned more than a ship's captain; bus drivers, postmen and newspaper reporters got more or less the same pay. Taxes ate away people's earnings. Many imports, especially automobiles, were rationed, leaving popular demand unsatisfied. Thousands of young New Zealanders emigrated to find freer opportunities abroad...
...Postmen's Plight...
...another committee hearing, special attention was paid to the economic plight of U.S. postmen. Before a Senate Civil Service subcommittee appeared beauteous Mrs. Jeanne Bolen, mother of three and wife of a Washington letter carrier. In a few brief minutes of testimony, she showed the Senators what inflation is doing to all people on fixed salaries. She reported that even though she does all her own housework, her annual budget adds up to $3,274.71, including $49 for her husband's work shoes, but nothing for recreation or emergencies. Yet Mr. Bolen makes only $3,100 a year. Added...
...Postmen...