Word: mailboxes
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Manhattan's lower East Side; another explained that her feet were killing her. The majority found the pay too small ( 7¢ a name), the work too dull or the insults too biting. Another Manhattan census taker was fired for filching a $202 check from a mailbox-but the Government had other plans...
There was the sound, for example, of 7,000 letters dropping into Senator Brien McMahon's mailbox. They came from people anxious for peace and hungering for quick solutions. Most of the letters endorsed McMahon's proposal of a $50 billion global Marshall Plan (TIME, Feb. 13) that would promise Russia and other nations fistfuls of U.S. dollars if Russia would only promise to outlaw the atom bomb. Many seemed to think that there was no other alternative: it was either McMahon's proposal or what he called "an attack that might incinerate 50 million Americans...