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...plodded along, and yesterday the world began beating its intrepid way to our door. Someone telephoned from Virginia. "Who said anything about buying football players. . . .?" Someone wrote airmail from Virginia. "A Confederate Flag was stolen . . . We have the honor system down here. We don't lock our doors . . . It was a large Confederate Flag . . ." People came calling. "What happened...
Free v. Chosen Instruments. James M. Landis, chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, predicted that U.S. airlines flying transatlantic routes (Pan American, T.W.A., American Overseas) would soon be showing profits on Atlantic operations exceeding the airmail subsidies they receive from the Government. Landis discounted the danger of harmful competition from foreign-government-sponsored lines, which might force the U.S. to name and back a "chosen instrument" of its own. "What scares me now," said he, "is that we won't get effective foreign competition." Three days later, President Truman's Air Coordinating Committee, of which Landis...
...picture starts out auspiciously as the story of the first flyers who took the airmail, back in the "Twenties. The scene is a circus, complete with a rudimentary chorus line and four brothers who put on a daredevil air show. The audience is set for an hour and a half of rare entertainment, when the story collapses with a whimper into the worst kind of homey, ineptly-handled drama. One of the brothers, a self-styled ladies' man, marries, and brings his wife to live with his brethren, all of whom fly the mail. Inevitably, one of them...
...actress, but she is entertainment--good, old-fashioned cheesecake. She appears only once again, and the audience is left nostalgically thinking of the first scene, which, if corny, has more personality than is supplied by Sonny Tufts, his three brothers, and the girl, all rolled into a neat airmail package...
Timesaver. CAB issued the first helicopter mail-operating certificate to Los Angeles Airways, Inc. The helicopters, windmilling over Los Angeles between the municipal airport and postoffices, will save as much as 24 hours on airmail deliveries, CAB estimates...