Word: postalized
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...Herbermann procured for his line a ten-year ocean mail contract at $1,044,000 per year. When his new ships began to operate Walter Brown, then Postmaster General, increased this subsidy to $2,185,000 per year. But Export Steamship was not overburdened with postal cargo. From August 1928 to June 1929 its ships carried precisely three pounds of mail, a cost to the Government of $234,980 per Ib. In 1929 it carried one pound of mail for $115,335. For fiscal 1931 it carried eight pounds of mail for $125,820 per Ib. Its defense was that...
...Postal Shock Troops...
...Postal workers view TIME'S try at painting the Roper lily (Letters, Aug. 28) as scarcely TiME-worthy. In no wise existing on "public money on which the taxpayer gets no tangible returns," the postal service renders as tangible and indispensable a service as that given by the telephone, telegraph, railway and express companies. And ''public money" is public money whether paid indirectly through the Postoffice Department or directly to a utility...
...Postal salaries were thoroughly deflated during the World War. Having no part in the wage rises given the Government-controlled railway workers, letter carriers and postal clerks stuck to their jobs at wages one-half those paid to textile workers. Salaries were not equitably adjusted until 1925. And the classification act of that year was admittedly a compromise, a lower wage than was just being fixed, coupled with an assurance of decreased living costs. Now, in the face of assured inflation and soaring prices, postal salaries must once more be "deflated...
...postal workers be blamed for wondering why they must always fill the role of shock troops? A Bilbo, clipping newspapers at a desk lor $6,000 a year, gets no applause from a sub carrier, trying to exist at $8-or less-a week...