Word: airmail
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...since the nation's birth. From Philadelphia in 1793, George Washington wrote out a note in English for Jean Pierre Blanchard so that the French balloonist, on his pioneering flight over the Delaware River, would not panic the New Jersey natives. Thomas Jefferson benefited from early airmail in 1803: a carrier pigeon flew from New York to Washington bearing the good news that Napoleon had agreed to the Louisiana Purchase. Teddy Roosevelt was the first occupant of the White House to fly, even though he was no longer President when he did so. After some difficulty getting through...
...peacock. Now the shock waves have reached Postmaster General William F. Bolger, who last week withdrew all U.S. Olympic commemorative stamps, postcards and envelopes from the market "in support of national policy." Will the Olympic issues become hot collector's items like the 1918 upside-down airmail stamp, or even the less exotic 5? 1967 American Space Twins issue, which still commands $10 for a block of four? Not likely. Some 300 million Olympic stamps were sent to post offices last fall. To reckon their value, philatelic enthusiasts will have to determine how many were sold, saved, licked...
...washing on the dock, for one or two weeks. "But there are people who have been here for six weeks," he tells us. "It's unavoidable." The refugees get a roof over their heads, two meals a day (one hot, one dry ration), medical assistance (if available) and one airmail letter (with postage) per family. As you walk through the camp, people approach you with scraps of paper and beg you to send telegrams to Washington or call their relatives in Los Angeles...
...into his one-man wrecking crew act. In the third, after Santos-Buch had been decked by a pitch, he deposited a Bruce Pearson curve about two steps short of the trainer's room at Dillon to make it 3-0. Two innings later he stamped another Pearson bender airmail, this time going with the outside pitch to the opposite field...
...blue-and-silver Swallow biplane last week zipped down the runway and into a dawn sky over Pasco, Wash. About two hours and 244 miles later the tiny two-seater landed at Boise, Idaho, to a cheering crowd. The journey was a rerun of the nation's first airmail flight by an outfit (Varney Air Lines) that later became part of United Airlines, and its purpose was to mark a half-century of commercial aviation in the U.S. The milestone, however, comes at a less than auspicious time for most major carriers. Buffeted by a recession-induced fall...