Word: postalized
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Then there is the business of overseas production for TIME'S foreign editions and getting supplies across the oceans-translating and converting weights and measures, postal rates, etc.-and watching to see that foreign printers do not just use hyphens like that last one (putting them in wherever the line ends) instead of following the rules of English syllabification...
Last month Missouri's Senator Frank Briggs received a routine patronage notice from the postal department: the $4,500-a-year postmastership at Clinton, Mo. (pop. 6.041) was open...
Winter is no bargain, either. Its snowstorms, which the dauntless U.S. postal service defies, stall the trains TIME depends on for prompt U.S. delivery; its uncertain weather and icing conditions ground the planes delivering TIME'S pictures to the printer and the film we use for printing our International editions abroad. Once it trapped a correspondent we desperately wanted to get in touch with for a solid month on a tiny Atlantic island...
...Detroit the word got around fast. The Canadians had revalued their dollar. Instead of being worth only 91 U.S. cents, it was now worth a U.S. dollar. But Washington apparently had not heard about it. At the postoffice, smart Detroiters were still able to buy postal orders for cashing in Canada at 91 U.S. cents for a Canadian dollar. The Detroiters cashed the orders in Canada. The Canadian dollars were turned in, dollar for dollar, for U.S. dollars. The quick profit...
Would Perón also save from devouring inflation those few hundred pesos socked away at the postal-savings bank? Guillermo had an answer for his father: "Perón will fix everything...