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Three years out of college, he helped organize Colonial Air Transport, which won the first U.S. airmail contract. But when he daringly proposed that little Colonial's Boston-New York route be stretched all the way to Florida, his staid New England backers were alarmed. Trippe pulled out, having learned a lesson: never to take a board of directors into his confidence until his plans were...
...airlines had anxiously wondered how much CAB would give them in retroactive airmail pay. The lines had asked for the back pay, contending that their mail contracts had failed to take account of the full rise in costs. Last week CAB unwrapped a big and shiny award. It granted $7,800,000 in retroactive mail pay to seven lines: American, United, T.W.A., Northeast, Northwest, National and Challenger. (This was almost enough to wipe out the whole industry's loss...
...perishable commodity, TLI takes pride in the knowledge that most of these 260,000 copies of TIME were being read while U.S. citizens were reading the same issue. The story behind this accomplishment might very well begin with an Indian Maharaja who, in 1941, was paying $585.60 a year airmail charges to have TIME flown to him. At that time only 26,000 copies of TIME were going (by surface mail) to the world outside continental North America. There were many requests for faster delivery overseas, but the best air-delivered price we could get was $1 a copy...
...soon as the U.S. and the four overseas editions of the December 6 issue had been distributed across the world, Dr. Jacobsen began hearing from TIME'S readers and their friends -by cable, airmail, telephone and letter in seven languages. Most of the communications were addressed merely to "Doctor Jacobsen, Copenhagen," leaving it up to the post office to find him.* Last week Dr. Jacobsen's elderly male secretary was so overworked answering the mail that he collapsed...
...Airmail. U.S. Post Offices began to take domestic air parcel post (over eight ounces and up to 70 pounds). Private companies will continue to handle air express and large commercial shipments...