Word: airmail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this writing Editor Hall has received more than 300 airmail letters. He wonders: "What do you suppose will happen when the boat mail begins to arrive?" Although a majority of the letters bear a U.S. postmark, others have come from Continental Europe, Latin America, and as far away as Wendji-Coq in the Belgian Congo. Furthermore, to Hall's surprise and gratification, 90% of the letters enclose subscription orders. Says he: "What impresses me is the complete faith TIME readers must have in their magazine. Almost every letter had in it money or checks. To have money sent...
...first publisher to use rotary presses in Japan, the first to install a newspaper-clipping morgue, the first to run a picture supplement. In 1923, Asahi inaugurated Japan's first regular airmail service-with its own fleet of planes-to link the Osaka and Tokyo editions...
...Separate Government subsidies from actual airmail...
...airmail pay rates are fixed partly on the basis of compensation, partly according to the airlines' needs for a subsidy in order to make a reasonable profit. How much of a given rate is compensation and how much is subsidy is not announced by CAB, but the Hoover Commission has urged that such separation be made...
Three years out of college, he helped organize Colonial Air Transport, which won the first U.S. airmail contract. But when he daringly proposed that little Colonial's Boston-New York route be stretched all the way to Florida, his staid New England backers were alarmed. Trippe pulled out, having learned a lesson: never to take a board of directors into his confidence until his plans were...