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National Affairs: Sticky

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TIME

Officials of the Bureau of Standards affixed 700 stamps to envelopes, put them in a revolving barrel, turned it with electric power until the edges of the envelopes were worn off: Not one stamp left its envelope. Results: proof that there is no base for recent charges that U. S. stamps do not stick on as long as they used to.

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