Word: postalized
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Footnote. In Pocatello, Idaho, postal authorities mulled over the weight ceiling which forbade mailing his new size 15 brogans to Marine Pfc. Lawrence I. Hanson, somewhere in the Pacific (TIME, April 24). Wrote an impatient woman: "Did you ever think of sending each shoe in a separate parcel...
...Josephson, before new routes were opened to bidders, "Trippe's agents turned up in the Latin American Republics that lay along the future routes ... to apply for exclusive flying franchises." With and without the help of the State Department, Pan Am wangled scores of exclusive contracts, while postal authorities "passed over lower bids of other interests to favor Pan Am with its strong financial backing." Summing up, Josephson holds: "Thus, rightly or wrongly ... the Post Office Department and Congress by its appropriations, tolerated and indeed encouraged monopoly in the foreign mail service...
...best regards to Warner, the P.M. kid, who is at home recuperating from a case of pneumonia. Bob's home address is 253 West 72nd Street, New York, N. Y., in case you've an extra minute and a postal card...
Brazil, under the pro-Allied rule of Franklin Roosevelt's good friend Getulio Vargas, has a postal censorship so rigid that almost any criticism of its Government is a criminal offense. According to a returning traveler, an American businessman recently wrote a letter lambasting Brazilian business practices. He was jailed, held incommunicado for three days, then sent home on a plane. Finally Ambassador Jefferson Caffery heard of the case, made representations...
Explained Major Kenneth H. Donnelly, postal officer of the Sixth Service Command: lipstick smears when it passes through V-mail photographic equipment, ruins the letter that bears it, and others that follow. The automatic feeder must be stopped and cleaned after every passing of "the scourge...