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Direct daily airmail service for 1,400-odd communities, large and small, is in the cards by mid-1942-a five-fold increase over today's total of 288. Reason: business is increasing so fast for All American Aviation Inc. that profits are at last in sight for the only airmail "milk route" now operating. March volume was 20% over February. April will be up almost as much more to about 15,000 lb.; and when volume reaches 20,000 lb. the company expects to break even...
...have already mailed my subscription to your new airmail edition for Latin America, and wish both to thank you for and congratulate you on your splendid, and I fear, altruistic, initiative...
Average cost of an airmail subscription to TIME in South America has been $272 a year. With its May 5 issue, TIME will publish a special International Air Express Edition in English, starting with 20,000 copies for Latin America. First magazine to be regularly delivered by plane, it will reach Latin American readers as far south as Buenos Aires by Monday date of publication. Subscription rate will be $10 a year. Making possible TIME'S Air Express Edition were: 1) cooperation of Pan American Airways; 2) a special lightweight paper printed on specially designed presses...
Result: an old-fashioned rate war. Last month Sedta established domestic airmail service, charged 80 centavos (about 25?) per five grams. A few days later, Panagra cut the price to 45 centavos. Last week came Sedta's rebuttal, devastating and unanswerable: they would carry mail free within Ecuador's borders...
NEWS AND NEW REALEASES: Via airmail from New York: Count Basic will disband his orchestra and join Benny Goodman unless he is released from his contract with MCA. Right now the Count is on the road with Benny . . . Record of the week: Wings Over Manbattan by Charles Barnet (BLUEBIRD), and "atmosphere" tune on the line of Rhapsody in Blue. Very imaginative arranging of sophisticated melodic patterns built around the 32 bar theme. . . For a girl vocal trio that really swings (Andrews Sisters please note), listen to the Dandridge Sisters with Jinunie Lunceford on Red Wagon and You Ain't Nowhere...