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Show PLAN ASSAULT ON HIGH LIVING COST WASHINGTON. Dec. 5. Plans for an assault on the high cost of living, by extension of rural parcel post through the use of army motor trucks, were explained ex-plained today by Assistant Postmaster General Rlakslee to the house postofllce com m It tee. Mr. Hlaksiee is asking for SS,mH0.OO0 for the rmal mail serviee for the year beginning begin-ning July 1 next, and said tin t trucks tor ihe proposed service would be turned over by the war department -without charge. Truck trains, he added, could make postal rates compete with freight rates. |