Word: receipts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...announcement of the planned expansion followed receipt by the University of a grant from the National Science Foundation for the construction of the new telescope...
...Russian Research Center's prime sources of material is its daily receipt of Communist publications. From these, the Center experts analyze the recent trends and developments in the Communist sphere of influence. A loss of these documents would cause inestimable damage to the Center's research projects...
...United States Post Office confessed last week that for three years now it has confiscated all Russian propaganda to "unauthorized" persons in this country. This legal basis for this action, the Post Office said, is a 1940 ruling by the Attorney general under a Congressional act that limits the receipt of foreign political propaganda to diplomatic or registered agents. Sound as the Post Office's legal position may be, its reason for censorship-that Russian propaganda can be damaging within the United states-is far from convincing...
...CERTIFIED MAIL system will start soon unless the Post Office Department gets serious objections from the public. To supplement current registered mail (minimum charge: 30O, new system will use a special 15? stamp to entitle senders to a receipt proving that the letter was mailed. The post office will file a delivery receipt and give one to the sender for an extra 7?. Letter writers who want insurance will have to pay registered-mail rates as before...
...savings bonds and get $38,400 back. Worth $51,200 in ten years." The get-rich-quick scheme, starting in the South last fall, spread into New York and New England last week. Each participant buys two bonds (total outlay: $37.50), gives one to his sponsor and pops the receipt for the other in the mail to the person on the top of an eleven-name list. He then knocks the top name off, and adds his to the bottom. Then he lines up two friends, collects a bond apiece from them (thus gets his money back), and makes sure...