Word: airmailed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sikorsky Samoan Clipper a steady 135 m.p.h., P. A. A.'s taciturn, 43-year-old veteran Captain Edwin C. Musick uneventfully traversed this route. This week he will begin scheduled fortnightly service (mail & express only) between New Zealand and Hawaii just in time to save the franchise. Airmail time between the U. S. and the Antipodes will be four days. Steamships take 18. In six months Imperial Airways will fly 1,280 miles across the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand, and when P. A. A. puts passenger planes on the Auckland run, passengers will be able...
...Commerce Commission while the other (Bland-Copeland Bill) would segregate over-ocean flying from domestic aviation and put it under the Maritime Commission, as Chairman Joseph Patrick Kennedy suggested in his famed report (TIME, Nov. 22). For Pan American, which escaped the visitation of the Black Committee in the airmail investigation, the ultimate decision is vital. Under the Lee-McCarran Bill, the I.C.C. would give preference in granting certificates for overseas air service to applicants already holding the necessary foreign licenses and franchises-which Pan American's shrewd young President Juan Terry Trippe has forehandedly tied...
...Airmail rates have been drastically low ever since the notorious air mail contract cancelations of 1934 and the abortive Air Mail Act it produced. Airlines are generally considered a heavily subsidized industry, actually are barely so, since sales of stamps almost equal Post Office payments to the lines ($12,000,000 for domestic lines for the fiscal year...
...Spent all morning trying to see my adviser. Not finding him in his office, scurried down to his room. A note was tacked on the door addressed to the instructor living with him: "If you can pay me the bet on the Yankees, send it airmail to the Roosevelt Hotel, New York. Thanks, Pericles...
...corridor from Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley's office in Washington's new Post Office Department Building, a bald gentleman who loves flute playing and the frozen North, fortnight ago finished two murals in the smooth, decorative style for which he is famed. One showed the first airmail delivery among Alaskan Eskimos, the other the same event in Puerto Rico. Neither attracted much attention until last week hale, old, Arctic Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson opportunely happened by and disclosed that one of Rockwell Kent's murals contained the nearest thing to a cryptogram now on view on Washington...