Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...following communication was received in the mail early this week. The excellence of both the writer's style and the points made, it was felt, warranted more than the usual letter space. The editors therefore, decided to print the communications under this heading...
This time, the Blood Committee, under the direction of Frederick M. Fialkow '51, has attempted to rectify the situation by distributing parental release slips before vacation. Thus, donors under 21 can get the slips signed at home during vacation and return them to PBH by mail...
...lost no time in donning his seven-league boots. Working hand in glove with the post office, he won contracts to fly to San Juan and the Canal Zone, and overnight was assured $2,500,000 a year in mail revenue for ten years. Pan Am began the year 1929 with no miles of routes; at year's end it had 11,000. By 1930, at the age of three, Pan Am was the world's longest airline, and still...
...worked with planemakers to turn out the flying boats he needed, sent Charles A. Lindbergh, a consultant to Pan Am, on Great Circle survey flights to the Orient. Trippe's agents roamed south, east and west lining up the exclusive landing franchises that paved the way for mail contracts. In island chains and jungles, his crews hacked out airports, strung together radio and weather networks. The better to feed his mushrooming lines, he formed a brood of subsidiaries and affiliates, of which he still has 18; the biggest are Pan American-Grace Airways and Panair do Brasil.** Whenever competitors...
...network that Juan Trippe built is one of the healthiest in the industry. Last week, releasing its 1948 financial report, Pan American estimated its net income at $4,590,000 (nearly 50% above its 1947 net), on $145,216,000 worth of business, including $32 million in mail...