Word: airmail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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POSTAGE RATES will probably not go up this year, even though House Post Office Committee by 2-1 majority approved one-penny boost for first-class, airmail rates...
...Toronto native who owns 20 dailies in Canada (almost one-fourth of Canada's English-language dailies) as well as Florida's St. Petersburg Independent (circ. 25,820). This summer he plans to assign staff correspondents to major international news centers, and will start publishing a special airmail edition that will be flown to world capitals and reach European newsstands only a few hours after publication. Thomson hopes the Scotsman will thus become the conservative, north-of-the-border counterpart of the Manchester Guardian, Britain's most prestigious provincial daily, while also reaching added circulation by appealing...
...peak of its power. In his twelve-year regime, a short one as Guardian editors go, Wadsworth trebled circulation (to 167,000) and challenged the London Times in the influence of its editorial voice. He swept the clutter of classified ads off the front page, launched an international weekly airmail edition (circ. 37,744), watched advertising and circulation spread to make the Guardian Britain's only national daily published outside London...
...Passed, in the House, by a 217-165 vote, an Administration bill-opposed by the Democratic leadership-to raise postal rates from 3? to 4? for first-class mail, 6? to 7? for domestic airmail, and by 30% to 120% for second-class mail. The bill, designed to wipe out the postal deficit by producing $430 million a year in new revenue, will probably be pigeonholed in the Senate...
...President Kubitschek and some 200,000 other Latin American readers, who include politicos in and out of power, intellectuals, artists and industrialists, this issue of TIME will have a special significance. It marks the 15th anniversary of the founding of the airmail edition, the first of our four foreign editions...