Word: postal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Battling Bachelor. Halimi, who carries Cerdan's picture with him everywhere, is as tough as any of them. The youngest of 18 children of a poor Jewish postal inspector, he quit school at twelve and became a tailor's apprentice. Five years later he sewed himself a pair of green and red trunks, decorated them with a Star of David, and became a boxer. As an amateur, he was champion of France in 1953, '54 and '55. When he turned pro in 1955, he went back to Algeria to begin his career. Along with every other...
...Post Office deficit (Congress balked at the postal-rate increases the Administration asked for) that will top the January budget estimate by $600 million. ¶ Rising interest rates that could up the cost of carrying the national debt by $500 million...
...officials deplore the U.S. postal service as a relic of shabby inefficiency, but no harsh words do it quite the justice of The Great Billion Dollar Mail Case, which brought Edward R. Murrow back to a new season of See It Now on CBS this week. Cameras behind the scenes of Manhattan's main post office caught the overwhelming frustration of an archaic system, dispirited employees and a staggering, endless load of work. They also recorded pent-up grievances of clerks, letter carriers and their boss, Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield, presented the contrast of smooth modernity...
...would add up to $211 million less than the Administration's estimate, but at least part of this cut will probably be restored next session with a deficiency appropriation) and 2) the $1.1 billion that Congress voted but the Administration did not ask for, e.g., pay raises for postal workers...
...week's end the President flew back to Washington for conferences on the Middle East and the South, signed 27 bills, but pocket-vetoed one that would have raised the pay of 1,500,000 postal workers and other federal employees a total of $850 million a year on the grounds that it was inflationary. Then he drove to Baltimore to spend 45 minutes at the debut of Niece Ruth Eisenhower, 19-year-old daughter of his brother Milton. He had, indeed, the air of a man with no regrets and with a great deal of calm determination...