Treasury-Post Office Departments Appropriations for 1954: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Eighty-third Congress, First Session. Post Office DepartmentU.S. Government Printing Office, 1953 - 243 pages |
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01 Personal services account for 1954 additional administration airmail ALLEN amount annual appropriation approximately areas ASKEW ASSISTANT POSTMASTER Average positions basis believe budget CANFIELD cents certificates Chairman Civil Aeronautics Board clerks committee Congress contract cost decrease deficit developed effect employees equipment Estimated obligations facilities fiscal year 1952 follows fourth-class offices fourth-class post offices funds GARY Government Government-owned handling highway post offices Hook improved increase inspection service inspectors Interstate Commerce Commission JAMES justifications KIEB leased machines ment million NELSON Object classification paid parcel post PASSMAN percent personnel Post Office Department postal establishment postal operations postal savings postal service postal transportation service Public Law railroad rates receipts record rental request revenue ROBERTSON rural carriers Salaries and travel short-haul truck SIEMINSKI special-delivery messengers stamps star routes statement STEPHENS STROM subsidies SUMMERFIELD tion vehicles VURSELL Wilkes County yes yes
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