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Starting April 1, Canada will send all first-class out-of-town mail by air. Postage rates will be increased from 4? to 5? for a one-ounce letter, but there will no longer be an additional charge for air delivery; Canada's 7? airmail stamps will be discontinued...
Traveling Secretary. For traveling businessmen, Travel Talk, Inc. put coin-operated Dictaphone machines into trial operation in Cleveland and in London, Ont. For 50? the user can dictate into the machine for 15 minutes, gets a Dictabelt record and a stamped, airmail envelope to send it to the home office for transcribing. Travel Talk expects to have 2,000 machines installed within two years...
Shortly after World War I, he learned to fly, formed a company of his own, along with Harold Harris, now president of Northwest Airlines, and took crop-dusting teams as far as South America. He landed an airmail contract and passenger route to Peru and Ecuador in 1928, later sold it to Pan American-Grace Airways. In 1929 he helped form Delta and started flying passengers from Dallas to Jackson, Miss. and other Southern cities. He has been rapidly expanding his routes ever since. In the last five years. Delta's net has jumped from...
...miles of routes reaching from Wilmington, N.C. to Cincinnati. Although Davis' airline is technically a "feeder" (i.e., a supplier for trunk-line routes), 47% of its passengers ride only Piedmont. President Davis runs his line so efficiently that he needed only 24% in airmail pay per $1 of gross revenue to break even last year, while other feeders require as much as 46? for Southwest, 66? for West Coast...
...press, he has recited the polished sentences into a Dictaphone, and soon they will be teletyped into the offices of the Herald Tribune on 41 st Street in New York. From there, after an editor has read them with reverent care, the syndicate will siphon the column by airmail and telegraph into prominent papers in Bombay and Des Moines and Dallas and Copenhagen and Halifax. If a comma is misplaced or a paragraph mangled, the editor may hear from Mr. Lippmann. In a couple of hundred newspapers, anxious readers will find in Mr. Lippmann's opinions the balm...