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...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...
...office in a dirt-floored converted bar in Leopoldville, Angola Rebellion Leader Holden Roberto happily waved a grimy letter on blue airmail paper. The exhausted courier who carried it over the border was already fast asleep in one corner. The letter, said Roberto, reported that rebel operations were now spreading southward in Angola...
...AIRMAIL SWITCH of military mail between Europe and U.S. will be made from Military Air Transport Service to American commercial airlines. Move will bring lines about $4.7 million more annually, is first in planned series to turn more of MATS business over to civilian carriers...
Similarities. The plane and its final explosion blew out a smoldering crater 50 ft. wide and 25 ft. deep. Civil Aeronautics Board crash specialists found empty, neatly laced shoes, a stray airmail letter, a bloodstained blouse, a prayer book lying open at the Litany of the Saints ("Lord have mercy on us . . ."). On the branches of nearby trees were towels and shirts, a child's sunsuit, some underwear-all hanging lifelessly amid the grey, acrid smoke that curled up from the crater for hours afterward...
...RATE AIRMAIL will be carried by airlines on a non-priority basis, if CAB approves. Airlines offered to carry first-class surface mail by air for half the regular airmail rate. CAB is expected to set rates close to those offered by airlines...