Word: airmail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mail. At Fort Benning, Ga., Lieut. John J. Y. Lyons received an airmail letter mailed at Lewistown, Pa. It had gone: first to Australia, back across the U.S. to Ireland to another Lieut. Lyons, thence across the Atlantic to the U.S. Travel time: 109 days...
...airline operator, burly, whip-smart Philip Gustav Johnson was branded an airmail profiteer, publicly disgraced, finally booted out of U.S. aviation by the witch-hunting First New Deal (TIME, April 30, 1934). Last week the same "P.G." Johnson was a top-flight U.S. production hero and Seattle's No. 1 citizen. Reason: Under Secretary of War Patterson had just handed Johnson and his booming Boeing Aircraft Co. the Army-Navy Production Award-newest U.S. prize for war-production excellence. Said Patterson: "This is your nation's tribute to the patriotism and production effort of your plant...
...this triumphant comeback P.G. can thank his amazing aviation know-how, his endless vitality, his ability to inspire trust -to say nothing of the fact that none of the airmail charges was ever proved. P.G. started in aviation in 1917, when he landed a job in the old Boeing factory. Zest, bright ideas and an all-round knowledge of machines made him president in 1926. To get a bigger market for his airplanes, Johnson set up United Aircraft & Transport in 1928, soon whipped it into the biggest U.S. aviation combine. Then came the infamous airmail investigation which cost...
...uniform; Lieut. Colonel Charles R. Dawley (Rep., Montana), now in Australia, who announced his candidacy for Senator James E. Murray's seat. Meanwhile Garfield, NJ. was in a turmoil. Mayor John M. Gabriel, a second lieutenant at Fort Eustis, Va., is trying to run the town by airmail...
...teams in Alaska have gone with the wind of a slip stream. Nearly everything nowadays travels by airmail and groceries, milk, medicine, machinery. But last week travel in Alaska threatened to slow down to a Malemute's pace again. The Civil Aeronautics Administration ordered every airline in the Territory to place every field under 24-hour guard in case of sabotage or invasion...