Word: airmail
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Campaign Commitments. Johnson's other budget proposals for fiscal 1970 include ending the distinction between first-class mail and airmail, since much long-distance mail now goes by air anyway; the new flat rate would be 7? an ounce. Congressional salaries would go from $30,000 to $42,500 a year, those of Cabinet members from $35,000 to $60,000. (Last week the Congress approved a 100% salary boost for the President, to $200,000.) Johnson requested no new money for the U.S. supersonic transport and suggested cuts of $300 million in space spending, $540 million in farm...
From the start, the legend was slightly askew. Lindbergh was no Flying Fool. Even at 25, he was probably the best knockabout flyer in the U.S. He was chief pilot (of three) for a tiny airline with a newly awarded contract to fly airmail between St. Louis and Chicago. Four times, lost in fog, he had been forced to ditch his plane and jump for his life. Lindbergh had left the University of Wisconsin midway through his sophomore year to take a course in flying, bought his first plane (for $500) a year later, and qualified as a pilot...
That windfall of war was celebrated last week in the tranquil islands with the tintinnabulation of steel bands and church bells. A commemorative 6? airmail postcard-the first in U.S. history-was issued for the fortnight-long celebration of the 50th anniversary of Transfer Day. Denmark sent officials and exhibits, and the Danish flag was hoisted again beside the old Government House. The islanders cavorted and caroused at horse races, baseball games, parades, masquerade parties and firework shows...
There, Boeing first built a 3,200-lb., 125-h.p., 78-m.p.h. wood and linen seaplane. In the years thereafter, Boeing made a land-based biplane that was the U.S.'s first efficient airmail carrier; it helped him to win the profitable San Francisco-Chicago route. Boeing's Monomail 200 in 1930 was the first plane with retractable landing gear; his 1933 ten-passenger Boeing 247 was the U.S.'s first twin-engined commercial transport plane, and the Boeing Stratoliner in 1938 was the first transport with a pressurized cabin...
Meanwhile, what ever happened to Founder William Edward Boeing? He was angered by a 1934 U.S. Government decision forcing him to split his aircraft manufacturing company and his newly thriving airmail and passenger service. He therefore let go of the carrier that is now known as United Air Lines, the U.S.'s largest domestic trunk line. He became so embittered that he sold out all his Boeing Co. holdings and never after 1934 played an active part in running his own company. He died...