Word: airmail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Apparently, it wasn't too hard for the Famous Physicist, for he replied by return airmail, though he forgot to put a 6? stamp on the envelope. In any case, Johanna got his letter, with a diagram* and instructions on how to do the problem. The Physicist's diagram merely suggested that a right triangle can be formed from 1) the line of centers, 2) a line parallel to the common tangent and running through the center of the smaller circle, and 3) the radius of the larger circle. The length of the tangent can then be found...
...Lockland, Ohio, self-styled president of the Society for the Preservation of Mett in America. He wrote TIME to ask for Bohling's address. Then Schehr wrote to Bohling: "This letter is the bearer of good tidings for you. On this Saturday, I have arranged to ship you (airmail) 5 Ibs. of Schmidt's famous hickory-smoked Mett sausage (American variety...
...Straight began his pruning, BOAC had an incredible break-even "load factor" of 115%, would have been losing money even if every seat on every flight was filled. Gradually, Straight and Sir Miles got this down to its present 65%. Profits began to roll in even before Britain boosted airmail rates last August...
Pollock usually tries at least twice for each autograph, but quit after one try with Stalin's son. He sent the cover to the Russian embassy in Washington, enclosing a forwarding envelope with $4 worth of airmail and special-delivery stamps. At the embassy, Vasily Stalin's name was crossed out, Pollock's written in, and the letter was returned, using up the $4 in postage...
...slump he bought control of the old Glenn Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co., by 1929 had 1) financed $80 million worth of aviation enterprises, 2) formed the Transcontinental Air Transport, forefather of T.W.A., with Charles A. Lindbergh as technician-executive, 3) helped finance the first trans-U.S. airmail and passenger services, 4) started the first passenger service in China...