Word: airmailed
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...young pilot barnstormed the country after he finished flying school, offering plane rides at $5 a head to farmers and small-town people. Later he flew airmail between St. Louis and Chicago, which in the primitive conditions of the '20s was about as hazardous as riding the Pony Express through a tribe of angry Comanches. A natural flyer, with as certain a feel for the whim of his plane as a bareback rider for his horse, he was ineluctably drawn to aviation's biggest prize: $25,000, offered by a New York hotel owner for the first successful...
...Nicholson's upstairs office are stacked airmail editions of his favorite paper, the international Herald Tribune -he plans to read every issue this year in a single sitting someday. Sundays are the province of his daughter Jennifer, 10, who visits, although her father says that he is "very tentative about infringing on Jenny's life. I want to be invited to enter her world, to be admitted gracefully...
Royal tours are not exactly what they used to be. When Queen Elizabeth II arrived in Canada last week at the start of an 11-day visit, Fleet Street virtually ignored the event. The airmail edition of the London Times carried only a three-sentence dispatch-by Agence France-Press; the Daily Mail carried not a line. Even the Canadians, who had not seen their Queen for two years, were not entirely overwhelmed. Some raised once again the question of whether Canada really needs a Queen. The Red Cross felt compelled to announce that a blood supply it had specially...
...letters had been mailed from Amsterdam on the weekend. Each of them had been specifically and neatly addressed and bore the exact postage for its slender weight. Unlike the old-fashioned parcel bombs, the new devices came in ordinary manila or airmail envelopes...
...tell they do, but the major problem is that they receive them as late as a year after publication. Since coming back I've raised some money to send them an airmail subscription to Nature, and I hope that we can raise money to send them airmail subscriptions to other journals. The one thing that I think is clear is that they will be read and used there...