after a 21 6 % increase in convenience store industry card fees in 2010 they jumped 23 3 % in 2011 to a record $ 11 billion and hit $ 11 2 billion in 2012 total credit and debit card fees surpassed overall c store industry profits for the sixth consecutive year
The first known black female postmaster was Minnie Cox, appointed postmaster of Indianola (pop. 10,863) in 1891 by President Benjamin Harrison.
The first woman to enlist in the Navy during World War I was Loretta Perfectus Walsh. She was the first woman allowed to serve in the Armed Forces as something other than a nurse. Loretta was sworn in as the Navy's first female Chief Petty Officer on 21 March 1917. She served briefly from 1917-1919, as women were automatically discharged from the military after the war effort ended. She fell victim to the influenza and later contracted tuberculosis.