Word: postalized
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...Billany: "You have humanized the service." Last week the Post Office Department found itself in a bad financial predicament. It was haunted as never before by the old problem of deficits, of the U. S. mails costing more to handle than they earn. Last year, it was announced, the postal service had run 137 million dollars into the red, which President Hoover considered a lamentable showing for the only "business" arm of a Government which its officials, in moments of pride, like to call "the biggest business organization in the world." Promptly President Hoover summoned to the White House Postmaster...
...publication. The losses on marine mail are due in a measure to the Jones-White Shipping Act which granted "subventions" to U. S. ships carrying U. S. mails on long-term contracts. Other factors which have increased the deficit have been recent legislation granting increased pay for night postal work, increased allowances to fourth-class postmasters, rate reductions on certain mail classes. The increasing use of the Congressional frank has added materially to the Post Office Department's deficits...
...true and unfailing friend. Words from him on post office matters carry great weight at the White House. The Minnesota election was barely over before President Hoover appointed Also-Ran Coleman to be First Assistant Postmaster-General, second-in-command of the whole vast U. S. postal service. A friend of Statesman Stimson and Leader Tilson might not win, it seemed, but a friend of Secretary Newton simply could not lose...
...These foreign publications, frivolous and obscene, are efficient agents of immorality and lack all the literary and artistic value which is supposed to justify their enjoyment of postal privileges...
Kolster Radio Corp. was formed in 1926* as a merger of several wireless companies. It supplies the radio portion of Columbia radio-phonographs. From it the Mackay (Postal Telegraph) companies buy all their communication equipment, and it supplies a minimum of one-third of the wired radio apparatus used by wired Radio, Inc., a subsidiary of North American Co. (utility serving 932 cities with population of 6,250,000). With these potent customers, and also with an excellent Kolster radio set, it is likely that Kolster's 1929 earnings will exceed the 20? per share figure reported...