Second-class Mail: Hearings Before the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads ... January 26, 27, 28, 29, February 4, 8, 1910U.S. Government Printing Office, 1910 - 490 էջ |
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Էջ 146 - ... orally the destruction of the General Post-Office building by fire, and received your instructions to inquire into the cause and extent of the calamity, for the purpose of enabling you to make a communication to Congress. A few hours afterwards I received, through the chairman of the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads of the House of Representatives, an official copy of a resolution adopted by that House, instructing the committee to institute a similar inquiry, and the chairman asked...
Էջ 23 - ... an even more difficult time meeting his needs than the more recent applicants. Senator LONG. Thank you so much for your statement which was very much in detail and so vividly illustrated by the case histories. I don't believe that our committee has had a report that thorough and of that type before. There are two or three questions that I would like to ask you, if I may, to clear this just a little. On page 1 you indicate from the years 1951 to 1961, the past 10 or 11 years, that you show a gradual...
Էջ 62 - ... another; could he not? Mr. KANN. It would all depend upon how good a buyer he was. I have known of cases when there was as much difference as from 5 to 7 per cent on a very low price. Mr. Pou. But as a rule there has been no very material difference. I believe you said awhile ago? Mr. KANN. Well, no ; I did not mean to say that. I meant to say that there was no material difference at present. Mr. Pou. I beg your pardon : I misunderstood you. Mr. KANN.
Էջ 106 - The CHAIRMAN. Does any member of the committee wish to ask Mr.
Էջ 410 - Department asking me to send them a copy of the American Federationist, the official publication of the American Federation of Labor, and I was apprehensive that the bogey man was after me.
Էջ 31 - The increase of advertising in the magazines was even greater than the increase in second-class matter. These years brought the great forward movement in the production of low-priced but well-edited magazines, made possible by large advertising incomes, and also in the increase in circulation by extensive combination book offers and so-called "clubbing " arrangements, by which the subscriber could purchase three or more magazines together at a low price.
Էջ 124 - Cost of Transporting and Handling the Several Classes of Mail Matter and of Conducting the Registry, Money Order, and Special Delivery Services, 1910.
Էջ 349 - Letter carrier routes within cities are "post routes" within the meaning of US Rev. Stat. § 3982, forbidding any person to establish any private express for the conveyance of letters or packets, or in any manner cause or provide for the conveyance of the same by regular trips or at a stated period over any post route which is or may be established by law...
Էջ 403 - To give all moral and material aid in its power to Its members, and those dependent upon them.
Էջ 160 - Upon a careful consideration of all the evidence and the statements and arguments submitted, and in view of all the services rendered by the railroads, we are of opinion that ' the prices now paid to the railroad companies for the transportation of the mails ' are not excessive, and recommend that no reduction thereof be made at this time.