Word: airmailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...airlines from flying the same international routes at the same time, and both the State Department and the Civil Aeronautics Board will investigate whether foreign lines are flying more flights to and from the U.S. than is permitted in international agreements. Ford will also consider raising the international airmail fees paid to U.S. carriers. (Currently, foreign carriers demand and get as much as five times what U.S. airlines collect for carrying U.S. overseas mail.) Further, the Commerce Department will promote a "Fly U.S. Flag Airlines" campaign...
...young pilot barnstormed the country after he finished flying school, offering plane rides at $5 a head to farmers and small-town people. Later he flew airmail between St. Louis and Chicago, which in the primitive conditions of the '20s was about as hazardous as riding the Pony Express through a tribe of angry Comanches. A natural flyer, with as certain a feel for the whim of his plane as a bareback rider for his horse, he was ineluctably drawn to aviation's biggest prize: $25,000, offered by a New York hotel owner for the first successful...
...These days, however, even that pace is frequently faster than the Italian mails. Take E. Paul Getty II's severed ear: when his kidnapers mailed it from Naples last fall, it took 20 days to arrive in Rome-and that was a brisk delivery by Italian standards. Some airmail Christmas cards from New York arrived at Easter time, and letters wending their way from one Italian city to another sometimes take a leisurely six months...
...many are deskbound and inefficient. As Paris' Le Monde recently observed in an editorial, "Italy is the only country besides Tibet in which it is impossible to communicate through a postal service." Le Monde's slur was unfair-to Tibet, which can get an airmail letter to New York by yak, truck and plane a week faster than young Getty's ear reached Rome...
...Nicholson's upstairs office are stacked airmail editions of his favorite paper, the international Herald Tribune -he plans to read every issue this year in a single sitting someday. Sundays are the province of his daughter Jennifer, 10, who visits, although her father says that he is "very tentative about infringing on Jenny's life. I want to be invited to enter her world, to be admitted gracefully...