Word: posts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since the first examination of Post Office expenses was made in 1926, first class mail has consistently paid far more than its cost. The rate hike proposal recently approved by the Senate will increase even more the proportion of postal service supported by first class revenue. In effect, it will give a larger discount rate to the major magazine concerns and the advertisers who flood the post office with "junk mail...
...main reason for the rate hike is a Post Office deficit which is now approaching $1 billion. The various increases will make up this deficit and will also finance a projected pay raise for postal employees. The raises, however, do not constitute a fair adjustment of postal rates...
...only amount to 14 per cent of its current insufficient rate. In addition, the Senate has rejected an amendment which would have raised rates for companies using over $1 million of postage annually. This would have more nearly compensated for the strain the big weekly magazines put on the post office...
...most perilous honors in Scotland's academic world is election to the purely decorative post of Rector of the University of Glasgow. In a remarkable display of grace under fire, Britain's Home Secretary Richard Austen Butler last week was installed and violently decorated by fun-loving undergraduates. "By 1970," Rab Butler was telling some 2.000 roaring students, "Britain can expect to increase her wealth by no less than 41%." Then the fun began. While a jazz band blared and soot bombs burst in air, No. 2 Tory Butler plunged stoically onward with his nuclear-energy speech, wearing...
Airlift. All told during the seven-day stretch most Pennsylvania trains were either canceled or late, and so much mail (4,000,000 pieces) piled up that the post office organized an emergency airlift of four airlines to move it south and west. The great trouble, said Pennsy Vice President J. Benton Jones, was "under-maintenance." Most of the stalled engines were between 15 and 23 years old, many of them the same engines that broke down under similar conditions during the winter of 1942-43. Yet the Pennsy cannot afford to buy new engines...