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Government Salaries. Wages of more than 1,000,000 civil servants were increased by an average 7½% (annual cost: $328 million); postal workers' salaries were raised by an average 8% (annual cost: $166 million). Senators and Representatives hiked their own pay to an annual $22,500, raised the salaries of federal judges and U.S. attorneys (annual cost, $6,000,000, with Supreme Court justices heading the list...
Keep Out. The 1955 Hoover reports recommended that many of the 104 Government units involved in banking and insurance should either 1) shut up shop or 2) operate on a self-supporting basis, and Postal Savings was cited as one activity the Government should give up entirely. The commission urged that Government loans be made at realistic rates and made its case by citation. Item: Rural Electrification Administration loans are made at 2% interest, and are covered by Treasury money borrowed at 3%. In its most controversial report, the commission strongly urged that the U.S. Government keep...
...reached Utah, he was handed a security-cleared "Military Map of the U.S.," showing key military installations as of 1953 and bearing printed regrets that censorship prevented inclusion of newer facilities. Arriving in Chicago, Tourist Molotov was greeted by a band of grim-faced hecklers, mostly Baltic refugees. A postal employee was spotted at the depot carrying a shotgun and a .45 revolver. Because he refused to be disarmed briefly (he was guarding mail), he was sternly guarded by two cops while Molotov walked through. The diplomat was soon bustling through Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry, where...
...moving into another new field. For $18 million, Textron will take over Western Union's international cable system to Cuba, England, the Azores, Spain and Italy. The sale solves a big problem for Western Union, which was ordered to give up its international operations when it bought out Postal Telegraph twelve years ago, has been looking for a buyer ever since...
...Union makes it possible for an American to telephone any one of 81 million telephone subscribers outside the U.S. The World Meteorological Organization gives warnings of storms in Asia, of locust pests in the Middle East; letters and parcels move freely across the continents and oceans because the Universal Postal Union divides the expenses among its 93 member nations...