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...first man across. Esther & Ann Bullard were first twins. Carmen & Minnie Perez were first skaters. Florentine Calegari was first on stilts. A Scottie was first dog. Police rushed to aid one woman staggering along with her tongue out. She was only becoming first across with tongue out. Two postmen took their lunch hour to be first mail-carriers across. Other firsts: the man who pushed a pill box with his nose, the girl who walked the chalk line in the centre, the boy who walked backward the whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Gate Party | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

About a month ago Denver postmen began to grumble at the loads they were lugging. Postal receipts at the Denver Post Office for April climbed dizzily and more than 100 extra hands were called in for full-time service to help handle the swelling volume of first-class mail. An amazing number of dimes began to pop out of the stamp-canceling machines. Finally it was discovered that a "Send-a-Dime" chain letter was sweeping the city. Completely swamped, Postmaster James Orren Stevic called in postal inspectors to investigate the possibilities of stopping the scheme as fraudulent. "The thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Chain Fever | 5/13/1935 | See Source »

Jokes touching any member of the Royal Family were abruptly and permanently barred by the British Broadcasting Corporation last week as postmen arrived with truckloads of protests against a quip broadcast from Leamington by Comedian Ernie Moss. Referring to the world's largest underwater tunnel, lately opened by His Majesty (TIME, July 30), shrill Mr. Moss chirped: "I was to have opened the Mersey Tunnel but the King charged a pound less, so I didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Pound of Mersey | 8/20/1934 | See Source »

...British dole, instituted in 1931, will be restored July 1 as will half the salary cuts which all government servants from King George to the village postmen took at the same time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Great Expectations | 4/30/1934 | See Source »

...help Army postmen out of their financial hole, the emergency airmail bill in Congress provides all those on airmail duty with a $5 per day expense allowance. But for a fortnight the House and Senate shuttled the bill inconclusively back & forth while flyers ruefully counted their pennies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Out of Pocket | 4/2/1934 | See Source »

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