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...turn a wary eye on puzzle contests. President Bernard Ridder of the St. Paul Pioneer Press made a worried call to Portland, then canceled his contest and turned its records over to the FBI.*At week's end the FBI was joined in its investigation by the U.S. Postal Service...
...next day she had a postal card from William James saying, "Dear Miss Stein, I understand perfectly how you feel. I often feel exactly that way myself." And underneath it he gave her the highest mark in his course...
Ultimate in Automation. The postal metering machine, which stamps and seals up to 175 letters a minute, has fathered a new family of machines to automate the office. In one minute different P-B machines can stuff 100 envelopes, fold 300 sheets, open 700 letters, sort 750 checks (see cut), count and tabulate 1,000 dollar bills...
Another machine, now going into the U.S. postal system, shuffles a mountain of mail so that each stamp faces in the right direction, then postmarks and cancels 500 stamps a minute, double what a man can do. Next November the Post Office will get a 75-ft. long P-B mail sorter by which twelve operators each can sort 720 letters a minute-triple the manual rate. Each letter passes on a conveyor belt before the eyes of a postal worker, who pushes keys to direct it to one of 300 cubbyholes. Now P-B's scientists are tinkering...
...stepfather, the late Walter H. Bowes. Bowes teamed with Inventor Arthur H. Pitney to develop the first crude postage meter. Wheeler went to Washington in 1920, presided over the demonstration of the machine that won federal approval for P-B to create what amounts to an auxiliary postal system. Soon after, young Walter Wheeler moved up to general manager, by 1938 was president...