Word: postal money order
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...China, hard up for dollars, got some very simply-by postal money order...
Enclosed is a postal money order in the amount of $12.50 to cover the cost of one year's subscription to TIME...
...buyer then wanted to sell it to the U.S. Treasury he would lose money on it. The advantage in buying canned gold dust, to hard-shelled citizens who aren't sure that paper money is here to stay, is that it is the only form of gold that the Government lets them hoard. Another hoarder, Alf Ringen, the postmaster of Kindred, N.Dak., rebelled at a 15-year-old government order which directed postal employees to save string; he had a 100-lb. ball of the stuff and it was getting...
...Wealthy Sir Thomas (Beecham Pills) and the BBC chipped in with extra concerts. From a waitress came a ten-shilling postal order "because I come from a musical family." The British Treasury promised to "consider favorably" a proposal that Strauss be allowed to take $4,000 in Britain's precious sterling out of the country. Said Richard Strauss, ex-rich man: "It is destiny. Who knows, Schubert and Mozart might have lived longer if they had more money-but I don't want to give the impression that I complain...
...Post Office Department last week started a new service for customers - a cheaper, easier way of mailing money. For amounts of $10 or less, post-office patrons may now buy a simplified postal money order in dollar denominations, paste on stamps for odd cents. Purchasers write in the name of the creditor and drop the order in the mail. Gone is the bother of writing out applications, waiting for the clerk to labor over the old form. Flat-rate cost...