Word: postalized
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...European nations face the same general difficulty-a shortage of goods and a tremendous amount of paper currency turned out by Nazi printing presses. Common remedy: invalidate some of the existing currency by requiring it to be exchanged for new currency, part of which is blocked in banks or postal savings, or taken by the Government in forced loans. It has worked well in some cases, but plenty of wild elephants have yet to be tamed...
...Allied Council agreed to end press and postal censorship, warning publishers to toe the anti-Nazi line. It restored a limited sort of rail service, relaxed the galling ban on travel between the U.S., Russian, British and French zones. Now food, fuel and people could begin to move between those drum-tight compartments. Finally the Council sent secret "recom mendations" to the four Governments on recognition of the newly broadened Provisional government...
...took only the first hour to make Manhattan realize the importance of elevators in its vertical, hurly-burly business life. While workers twiddled their thumbs, some nervously, some happily, mail and express packages piled up. Postal men knelt in the littered lobbies and handed out mail to clerks and executives they knew; express agencies had to halt deliveries. There was little extensive stair-climbing...
Through his postal-inspection tours, which he made on horseback, he discovered his greatest passion - foxhunting. Ireland's informal manners and poverty not only made him feel at ease, but gave him dignity. To the amazement of his superiors in London, he became a respected, hard working civil servant. He made his first return to England at the age of 30 with a bride, a decent salary, and his first novel, The Macdermots of Ballycloran...
When traveling by train on postal business, he wrote on a portable desk with a lamp (almost the whole of Bar Chester Towers was so written). En route to Egypt, to conclude a Postal Treaty with the Egyptian Government, he wrote his way across the Bay of Biscay, pausing between paragraphs to rush to the rail and vomit...