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Postmaster General Jesse M. Donaldson ordered drastic cuts in mail service, and the probable furloughing or firing of an estimated 10,000 postal workers, to offset the department's growing deficit ($551 million for fiscal 1949) and the $25 million cut made by the House Appropriations Committee in postal appropriations for the coming fiscal year...
...Academy clinched the game midway in the second period, scoring three goals between 7:00 and 8:50, making the score 6 to 1. This lead was big enough to offset later goals by Norm Hatch, Franklin, and Ron Huebsch...
...College is in sound financial condition, Buck said, and no gifts to the Harvard Fund will be used to offset operating deficits...
...thirds savings in maid costs, the Council feels, would offset the recent rise in graduate rents from an average of $252 a year per man to an average...
...Daniels and "Cotton Ed" Smiths. Some are merely time servers and seat warmers who are as incapable of harm as of greatness. There are others whose antics are sometimes cheap and whose motivations are sometimes sordid. But their faults in one area of lawmaking or politicking are offset by their usefulness in others. After allowances are made for such human frailty, these eight would turn up on most lists of the Senate's most expendable...