Word: postalized
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...Post Office last month for naughtiness (mostly because of its lithe, leggy, lightly clad "Varga Girl" drawings), the magazine Esquire has been crusading zealously in its own behalf. In a series of advertisements in newspapers and trade magazines it had been preparing for its Oct. 19 hearing (at which postal examiners will determine Esquire's right to continue to use second-class mail) by back-patting itself as a soldier-sailor morale builder...
...operations could possibly confer an advantage on any belligerent nation at the expense of another. These operations consist chiefly of: 1) collecting interest; 2) semi-automatic renewal of maturing investments (no new ones are made); 3) extending limited credits to central banks; 4) handling payments under the international postal agreement and prewar treaties; 5) acting as banker for the International Red Cross organizations operating from Switzerland. Last year the bank had to dip into its reserves to pay its usual 6% dividend of 7,500,000 Swiss gold francs...
...took more than ten years for Congress to exempt U.S. telegraph service from the provisions of the anti-trust laws so that Western Union and Postal Telegraph could merge (TIME, March 8). After that it took less than ten weeks for the two companies to work out the details of a combination to end useless duplication in a business where competition is costly and unproductive. The agreement announced last week: Western Union Telegraph Co. will buy out Postal, through an exchange of stock. Now all that needs to be done to make the merger a fact is for stockholders...
...Estabrook, who wrote the screen play, try very hard but they sometimes outdo the shaggy-haired eccentric in being sloppily sentimental. "The Human Comedy" is the story of a typically Saroyan family in the typically Saroyan town of Ithaca, California. There is Homer MacCauley, who pedals a bicycle for Postal Telegraph and learns about life (Saroyan life, that is) from veteran telegrapher Frank Morgan and manager James Craig. His little brother Ulysses (Ulysses and Homer live in Ithaca, Saroyan reminds us gently) is the inevitable Saroyan child, full of wonder and questions, very marvelous and just a little unbelievable...
...Days to Christmas. In Saskatoon, Sask., Scottish-born William Kinnear got his 1943 Christmas cards in the mail just ahead of the penny boost in postal rates...