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...days of flight. The airplane smoothed over the continent's fractured geography, knitted together its scattered populations and-most important of all -proved a far cheaper means of transport than building highways or laying track. In 1919, Chile was the first country outside the U.S. to launch an airmail service; one year later, Colombia licensed the first commercial airline this side of the Atlantic; in 1934, Brazil established the first transatlantic air route with Germany-five years before Pan American connected the U.S. with Europe...
CHRYSLER'S Autofare is one big witty spoof on automania. A 34-ft.-high "car of the future" has giant bucket seats made of real buckets, an airmail box on the dashboard and, under the hood, a hot-water bottle. More fun is poked at machines in a puppet-movie, in the Auto-Animal Zoo and in the Engine Fun House...
...Upon reading the "Cloture Roll Call," and being an absentee Colorado voter, I was amazed to find a Colorado Senator listed in the "uncommitted" column. This triggered a blunt airmail letter from me to him. I imagine that I was not alone and that senatorial mail was heavier than usual following your June 5 issue...
...Increased, in the House, stationery, postage and telephone allowances for Representatives, despite some fiery denunciations by Iowa Dollar Watcher H. R. Gross. The Representatives voted themselves a $600 increase in stationery allowance (to $2,400 per year), an extra $100 a year for airmail and special-delivery stamps, and an 11% increase in telegraph and long-distance-telephone allowances. Republican Gross failed in his efforts to force roll-call votes, but did set off some verbal fireworks. After a scathing attack by the lowan on congressional spending, including junkets abroad, North Carolina Democrat Harold D. Cooley snapped: "You sit back...
March Mailing. The "letter" was no surprise to political insiders. Photostatic copies of it started turning up last March toward the end of the election campaign. Some went to newsmen, others to politicians. All originated in London, were in envelopes stamped airmail, and seemed timed to influence the elections. But if that was the purpose, the senders bungled: most of the copies came by sea and arrived too late to cause a campaign stir...