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...carrying second-class mail, which includes magazines and newspapers. Last week President Truman himself teed off on magazine and newspaper publishers before an audience of postmasters, most of them political appointees. Harry Truman, who has joined Congress in asking raises for the mailmen despite the $500 million-a-year postal deficit, laid the "biggest part of the deficit" on the low rates on newspapers, magazines and advertising matter, a subsidy "to the tune of several hundred million dollars a year." Opposition to raising rates has come from "the slick-magazine publishers," said Truman, "and I mean that word...
...told Congress that the cost of handling the mail has increased by a billion dollars since 1945, and that rates would have to go up. He proposed to raise $271,320,000 by increasing most rates, and doubling the rate for second-class mail. When the Senate passed a postal bill three weeks ago, it shaved these increases, boosting newspaper rates by 10% a year for three years, magazines by 20% a year for three years, or 60% altogether...
...China, hard up for dollars, got some very simply-by postal money order...
Many of the money orders were small, and the amounts were often changed by clever forgers, e.g., $1.37 to $1,379.44. The Reds raked in $4,000,000 a month. Together with other gimmicks-completely forged postal orders, veterans' checks bought up for pesos-the Reds made an estimated $32 million in less than a year, using the money to buy war materials...
Goodman sent the CRIMSON a postal from East Berlin during the festival. On one side was a picture of a group of girls posing before a photograph of Stalin and on the other side was the following message...