Word: postal
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Shoes, Ships &; Stamps. Actually, the career of Economist Burns passed through a good many more phases than that. Burns was born 49 years ago in Austrian Poland. He was nine when he and his father came to the U.S. Arthur worked as a postal clerk, waiter, theater usher, dishwasher, oil-tanker mess boy, and salesman of shoes, furniture and real estate. By his third year as a student at Columbia, Burns had decided that he wanted to be an economist. After graduation he started teaching economics and doing research work while writing his doctor's thesis. Its subject: "Production...
...University degree holders will receive a postal ballot this spring and will select five Overseers, four Directors, and two Councilors. The results will be announced on Commencement Day, June...
...brace himself for his work and then wove his way home with his mailbag still loaded. On arrival he jovially dumped 282 Christmas cards on the floor and directed his wife to open the envelopes and remove their contents. Even after Willie was ar rested, the Jackson Park postal station could do no more than ask the 282 mail-less taxpayers to come down and sort through the pile. Postal Inspector F. W. Baleiko, however, was surprised at the public outcry caused by Willie's lapse from grace. "Sometimes," he said wearily, "these substitute carriers just dump their mail...
...postmarked "Dec. 21, London, S.E. 1," the note might have been written anywhere and mailed by any one of thousands wandering the streets of southeast London that day. Two Soviet cargo ships were tied up in London at the time, and the Waterloo Airways Terminal is part of the postal district in which the letter was mailed. The message itself, according to Colonel Bassett, gave no clue to Burgess' whereabouts. It came, as The Manchester Guardian put it, "like a rap on the door-but when the door is opened, nobody is there...
...rate boost will enable Canada's Post Office to continue its record as a government moneymaker. Only twice since 1933 has the department lost money; its 20-year surplus is nearly $90 million.* The new rates will add some $15,000,000 to postal revenue, help meet rising costs, and keep the department operating in the black...