Word: postalized
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...Troy Hawkins, 32, the wife of a Laurel, Miss. postal worker, was up most of the night with her small daughter, who was ill. It was 4 a.m. when Mrs. Hawkins finally snapped off the light and dozed off with her arm around her daughter. She was awakened by a man crawling up to the bed in the darkness. According to her testimony, after threatening to "cut your goddamed throat if you holler," the intruder raped her and fled...
...after the Dixiecrat revolt of 1948, had been peddling jobs in wholesale lots. The charges turned out to be true enough. A steady parade of smalltown postmasters and rural mail carriers told how they had paid or "contributed" from $250 to $1,000 each to get their appointments. One postal employee had even "contributed" $750 to the rump committee to get transferred to another city...
...reference book. The remaining, tougher 60% are forwarded to The Answer Man's Manhattan headquarters, appropriately located across the street from New York City's 5,000,000-volume Public Library, to be solved by 50-year-old Producer Bruce Chapman, his 40-man staff and a postal panel of 20,000 obliging experts...
There had always been a few chiselers in the army of 1,500 clerks, handlers, and carriers milling around each night in Boston's South Postal Annex. With all the frantic bustle of sorting and dispatching the daily mail, no one would ever miss the man who slipped out for a few beers or a movie. Before long the word got around Boston's pool halls and political clubs that the long, grimy building down by South Station offered splendid opportunities for anyone with the urge to cheat the Government out of a paycheck...
Oddly enough, news of the wholesale frauds never got beyond the locker rooms until last December, when a group of indignant workers quietly laid the whole thing before postal authorities. Fortnight ago, Boston's Chief Post Office Inspector Tennyson Jefferson and 42 inspectors swooped down on the annex. Though they had picked a bad night (business was slack because of the railroad strike), they found 28 time cards punched for men who never showed up, and enough evidence to convince them that the Government had been bilked out of between $4 and $5,000,000 in the last four...