Word: airmail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...page Prospectus, complete selection of European jobs and Job Application (enclose $1 for Prospectus, handling and airmail reply) write, naming your school, to: Dept., R, ASIS, 22 Ave. de la Liberte, Luxembourg City, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. The first 8000 inquiries receive a $1 coupon towards the purchase of the new student travel book, Earn, Learn & Travel in Europe...
...hands tremble: the yellow background was printed not only off-center but upside down, so that an inverted "4?" mark appeared in ghostly white 50 times on the sheet in the wrong place. Sherman, who has been collecting stamps for only four years, knew the story of the 1918 airmail stamp, when a sheet of a hundred 24? stamps was printed with a quaint old Army Jenny putting along upside down like something out of a flying circus. Individual stamps from that sheet are now worth $13,000; a center line block of four goes for $65,000. Visions...
...cockpit popped dapper Jehangir Ratan Dadabhoy Tata, 58, chairman of the country's flag-line Air-India, and India's foremost industrialist. Tata piloted the old flying machine over the 662-mile route from Karachi to Bombay to celebrate the 30th anniversary of India's first airmail flight, which he himself flew in a Puss Moth, the cousin of the Leopard. He had no trouble on the trip-except for a radio which conked out on the way. Grinned Tata: "It just goes to prove that technical progress has its disadvantages. Thirty years ago, this could...
...House approved and sent to the Senate an increase of $790 million in postal rates-raising the price of first-class letters to 5?, and airmail to 8?, imposing $53,400,000 in new rates on second-class mail (the Magazine Publishers Association predicted that many magazines and newspapers would be forced out of business by the new rates), and increasing the price of third-class mail from 1? to 3½?. Urged by the Administration as a budget-balancing necessity, much of the new revenue from the higher rates would probably be consumed by jumps in the wages...
...Pacific Coast edition (circ. 137,000), the Times), will introduce installment No. 1 late next year: a Los Angeles-based West Coast edition. It intends to solicit much of its circulation in the Los Angeles area. But the Western Times also intends to reach far-flung subscribers by airmail on the day of issue elsewhere in California, in Oregon and Washington, and possibly Alaska, British Columbia and Mexico. On a selective basis, the Times will also invade inland points such as Reno, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City and Phoenix...