Word: second
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mails is about 800 millions. Postal deficits are due to the fact that not all postal rates cover equitably the cost of the service rendered. The Post Office makes money on handling first-class letter mail, on postal savings, on its registry service. It loses on second-class matter (newspapers, magazines), fourth-class (parcels post), rural free delivery, air and marine mail. The only loss which President Hoover considers justifiable is on air mail which he feels is still in an experimental stage and worth the extra expenditure to advance commercial aviation...
...Second-class mail costs the U. S. about $90,000,000 per year more than publishers pay, no appreciable part of which can be charged against the free distribution of small weeklies in the county of publication. The losses on marine mail are due in a measure to the Jones-White Shipping Act which granted "subventions" to U. S. ships carrying U. S. mails on long-term contracts. Other factors which have increased the deficit have been recent legislation granting increased pay for night postal work, increased allowances to fourth-class postmasters, rate reductions on certain mail classes. The increasing...
...conference with Postmaster General Brown, President Hoover called for a quick and thorough study of postal costs by mail classes. At the Post Office Department, many an official was sure that the only remedy lay in increasing postal rates, especially on second and fourth class matter, a proposal which they knew would arouse the bitterest antagonism in Congress, which alone can sanction...
William Tatem Tilden II, 36, was defeated last week. Four games he won in the first set, only one in the second. In the third Henri Cochet was leading him 5-1. Suddenly, for a moment, returned the Tilden touch. His serves streaked into the court, changed direction when they struck, bounded far out of reach. His drives skimmed the net, his kills were invincible. But when the score was 5 to 5, Tilden's last fling was over. Valiantly he fought but Cochet took the next two games, the match...
...Continental opera season." She had sung Tosca at Moravska-Ostrava well enough to be invited to perform in the Salzburg Festspiel, to sing Tosca, Thais and Manon at Bad Reichenhall and in Vienna. Miss Gahagan began taking her voice seriously only one year ago. On the U. S. stage ("Second Ethel Barrymore") she played in Manhattan (1922), Trelawney of the Wells, Young Woodley, The Enchanted April, The Sapphire Ring...