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...Postal Deficit...
...debt, the Behn Brothers took it over, combined with it the Cuban telephone system a few years later. They have been accumulating telephone and telegraph systems the world over ever since.† I. T. & T.'s most noteworthy purchase in North America was the Mackay companies which included Postal Telegraph-Cable Co., bought in 1928. Col. Sosthenes, the more glamorous half of the Brothers Behn, acquired his title during the World War when he distinguished himself with the U. S. Signal Corps in France. An industrial Don Quixote, he specializes in daring enterprises. As chairman...
...their appraised value would put $22,000,000 into the Treasury but it was unlikely that they could be marketed quickly. The savings on maintenance will be small. To the Rapidan President Hoover called Postmaster General Brown and the four Assistant Postmasters General to see what economies the postal service could stand. This year's postal deficit will be around $140,000,000. Considered were proposals to increase the first-class postage rate from 2? to 2½?, cut down on the subsidies for air and ocean mail. Because of slack business the Post Office Department this year will...
...Postal Bulletin, issued under direction of the Postmaster General, in its latest issue contains the following: "Discontinued-Fourth Class
...Diego 8:10 a.m. Return trip: Leave San Diego 10:15 p.m., arrive Los Angeles 11:30 p.m., San Francisco 3:30 a.m., Seattle n a.m. The season's opening was also marked by the climax of a sharp fight between Western Union and Postal Telegraph Co. for the exclusive rights to sell airline tickets at their branch offices. Last week Western Union had made contracts with 18 airlines, to Postal's ten. But Postal's list represented 57,000 mi. of airway to Western Union...