Word: mailing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...impossible to live on this West Coast without feeling exasperated at one's mail from New York. New Yorkers seem peculiarly subject to a contagion of panic and they forget that west of the Hudson River lies the United States, which is still an immense and magnificent country inhabited by a vigorous race of people...
...Down Under, to start late this summer, Pan Am will pull one of its B-314s off the Atlantic run, reinforce its hull for Pacific operation. The American Clipper will make the run in four and a half days (steamship time: 17 days), may well be filled with westbound mail formerly shipped eastward over British Overseas Airways via Karachi and Singapore, to Britain's Australasian colonies. With six new B-314s on order, Pan Am can step up service on the New Zealand run next year when new Clippers are to be delivered...
...name on her tidy hull-Alaskan Clipper. Lugging deadhead passengers from CAA, Army and Navy, she sat down at Ketchikan, Alaska, soon whisked off, finished her run at Juneau. This week Betsy-a four-motored Sikorsky S-42-will go into regular twice-a-week service, lugging passengers and mail from Seattle to Juneau in seven hours, bringing the vast, untapped riches of the Territory within 24 hours of Manhattan. At Juneau, Betsy will have scheduled connections (via Pan Am's Pacific Alaska Airways) to Fairbanks and Nome, three hours farther west on the Bering...
With war's spread cutting down the number of lands visited by U. S. vessels, European mail to and from the U. S. has piled up. To help lug it, Pan Am this week will step up its transatlantic service (New York to Lisbon) from two to three runs a week. Bolstered by an extra plane crew, transatlantic pilots, radiomen, mechanics will lie over between trips at Lisbon, may there hobnob with British, French and Italian airline men, all operating across Europe from neutral Portugal...
...Stopping and censoring U. S. mail...