Word: airmail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...letter went off airmail last week to ex-farmer Mao, case-hardened Communist boss of Red China-signed by Henry Wallace, ex-Vice President of the U.S., ex-leader of the Communist-line Progressive Party, now a repentant chicken-and-strawberry farmer with headquarters in South Salem...
Since they had received no word from the Army in the two months since the action described in the paper, the Carters assumed that the letters had been mistakenly stamped in Korea. Wetumka's Postmaster Bill Nicks, irate at what seemed like mishandling of the mail, fired an airmail complaint off to Oklahoma's Congressman Tom Steed. Steed checked up. He discovered that the field headquarters of young Carter's outfit had evidently been overrun by the enemy and its records scattered...
...totem-pole-making ancestors. Painter Nielson was pleased to get the job, but explained that as the fish were running it would take him a couple of months to get around to it. In due time he shipped a six-foot-square totemic design, painted on cedar boards, airmail to Chicago. Like Nielson, Hopi Indian Fred Kabotie, who painted Arizona, refused to submit preliminary sketches. He hastened into the desert, shot a mule deer, skinned it, painted a picture on the hide, and sent it off. The painted hide, complete with head and tail, now hangs in the office where...
...cable business, which was a condition to the Postal Telegraph merger. Western Union contends that it needs the overseas revenue, plus a clear field in the U.S. telegram business, before it can be sure of a profitable living in competition with its remaining rivals, the airmail letter and the telephone...
Remembering the beating he had taken at the hands of the automobile industry, he fought his competitors for every minute advantage. Once when Braniff bid a low $0.00001907378 a mile for airmail subsidy, Rickenbacker got the bid by offering to fly the mail for nothing. He adopted a policy of waiting for other lines to use new aircraft-and risk crashes-before adopting them himself. He insisted on personally checking every expense item over $100, swore that he would never pay a dividend on Eastern's stock (he has 100,000 shares, is the largest stockholder) as long...