Word: airmailed
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Windt brought to the meeting some valuable stamp collections, which he showed to the members. The most outstanding of these was the airmail collection, formerly in the possession of York, Yale Hockey Coach, and valued at more than $1,800. It is the most complete one of its kind in the country, and, as it is soon going to be dismantled, it is improbable that such a collection will ever again he assembled...
...several years France has operated an airmail service to South America. In Argentina and Southern Brazil there are far more Italians than Frenchmen. With Italian assistance this service will be speeded up and will eventually include passenger planes...
...Largest since 1920, the bill calls for construction of 24 ships and 555 airplanes, addition of 11,667 officers & men. ¶Rejected, because the Post Office Department had not sanctioned it, a Senate amendment to the Treasury-Post Office supply bill providing $2,000,000 for airmail service from San Francisco to Canton, China. Post Officers declared the service would cost the Department $1,820,000 per year, bring in only $600,000 per year...
...Vance Breese, test pilot for Douglas, Northrop, president of Aviation Express Co., oldtime airmail pilot...
...Smith. Famed among fellow-pilots but virtually unknown to the public, tall, black-mustached Dean Smith last made front-page news when, in December, he spotted from the air an American Airlines passenger plane which had been lost for more than 48 hours in the blizzard-swept Adirondacks. Oldtime airmail pilot, member of Admiral Byrd's first expedition to Antarctica, Dean Smith has never been a headline flyer, lives quietly with his wife and daughter in East Orange, N. J., flies a Condor sleeper plane between Newark and Buffalo...