Word: third-class
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...evening the ship's band, as usual, played "Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves!" First-class passengers invented a cocktail: "Reina on the Rocks." Some of them began going ashore to sightsee, while others began flying to Britain at the expense of the Pacific Steam Navigation Co. When third-class passengers also asked for air passage, they were told to go ahead-at their own expense...
...last the Post Office is going to be run like a business. Now let's have the 5? first-class mail and relieve the taxpayer of the burden of the third-class mail and third-class operation...
...issued the orders that 1) eliminated, effective last week, all regular deliveries on Saturdays, 2) closed all Post Office windows on Saturdays, 3) drastically cut Post Office window hours on Mondays through Fridays, 4) limited downtown business-mail deliveries to two a day, 5) placed embargoes on nearly all third-class mail beginning next week...
...full $47 million in a matter of hours he ("and it breaks my heart even to consider such action") would have to take a whole string of drastic steps: 1) shut down post offices on Saturdays, 2) stop Saturday mail deliveries, 3) trim business-district deliveries and 4) curb third-class mail and postal money-order services...
Last year the move to raise first-class mail rates died in congress. The most logical way to raise the needed revenue is not, however, to hike letter rates but to increase charges on third-class advertising. Advertisers pay far less than their actual cost to the government and their flood of commercial trivia bloats the mail...