Word: airmail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back and legs or gently oscillated. After 15-minute morning huddles with Sherman Adams, he received official callers, among them Postmaster General Summerfield and Labor Secretary Mitchell. Summerfield later told reporters that he had talked to the President about legislation to raise first-class mail rates to 4?, airmail...
That was in the spring of 1951. Foreman Cramer, as Peoria's playing secretary, kept up a monumental correspondence with Alfred Joanni manager of a Kronach porcelain factory and the only man in the Kronach club who spoke English. For four years, the international airmail match ground on. Although each letter was vitally concerned with the progress of 42 chess games Joanni and Cramer managed to mix in some gossip, too. "We got to know the families and troubles of partners across the ocean." says Joanni. ''Pictures were exchanged. When one of the Americans died...
THREE-CENT AIRMAIL experiment will soon be extended to the West Coast by the Post Office Department, which now permits 3? airmail between Chicago, Washington, D.C. and New York. The Government will sign contracts with five airlines (American, Trans World, United, Northwest and Western) to fly low-cost mail between 22 western cities along the route from San Diego, Calif, to Seattle, Wash...
...best period was during the Korean war, and even then the gloomy handwriting was in the company books. From 1949 to 1953 the cost of their nonmilitary business zoomed by 40%, while rate boosts amounted to only 26%. Unlike passenger airlines, which get express (39? per ton mile) and airmail (45? ) contracts to make up any passenger deficit, the air freighters could only make money by increasing volume. When the Korean war ended, the Tigers and Slick prepared for serious trouble...
Washington State's Attorney General Don Eastvold, who was conspicuous on TV screens in July 1952 as the "young man with a book" among the Eisenhower speakers at the Republican National Convention, came to Brownell's defense. He wrote airmail letters to all the other state attorneys general urging a boycott of the meeting if Brownell was not invited. Twenty-four attorneys general replied to Eastvold, most of them backing his position...