Word: postalized
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...International of Labor Unions (Profintern). They had no more authority to speak for labor than labor leaders loyal to the Greek Government. ¶ The British common soldiers were resentful at the reporting of Greek news. They also despised ELAS, whom the Tommies, many of them members of the British Postal Workers Union, considered "the lousiest, dirtiest, scruffiest lot of fighters our men ever came across, compared with whom the Germans were gentlemen." The delegation was "impressed with the universal opinion of these British troops and of many others whom we consulted that, had they not been ordered into action against...
...paper shortage must be acute for you to omit eight of the 58 letters (gyll, w and dro) from the big name of the little town of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllandysiliogogogoch* (TIME, Jan. 15). ... Llanfair P.G. [is the] usual form for postal authorities and people in a hurry...
...Post Office Department last week started a new service for customers - a cheaper, easier way of mailing money. For amounts of $10 or less, post-office patrons may now buy a simplified postal money order in dollar denominations, paste on stamps for odd cents. Purchasers write in the name of the creditor and drop the order in the mail. Gone is the bother of writing out applications, waiting for the clerk to labor over the old form. Flat-rate cost...
Beautiful Opportunity. The telegraph and telephone fields have also felt the weight of Fly's hand. He improved the efficiency of U.S. telegraph service by fighting for the merger of Postal and Western Union. He insisted that long distance telephone rates be reduced; the reduction has meant a yearly saving of upwards of a quarter of a billion dollars to telephone users...
...swarm of postal hornets buzzed out of Smith College President Herbert John Davis' mail bag. Smith alumnae wrote that they had been receiving postcards signed by "Elizabeth Royon, '35" of Cleveland, pointing out that the New York Times had declared for Roosevelt. What, they demanded, was President Davis going to do about such a use of the addresses in the Smith alumnae register...