Word: airmailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Royal tours are not exactly what they used to be. When Queen Elizabeth II arrived in Canada last week at the start of an 11-day visit, Fleet Street virtually ignored the event. The airmail edition of the London Times carried only a three-sentence dispatch-by Agence France-Press; the Daily Mail carried not a line. Even the Canadians, who had not seen their Queen for two years, were not entirely overwhelmed. Some raised once again the question of whether Canada really needs a Queen. The Red Cross felt compelled to announce that a blood supply it had specially...
...letters had been mailed from Amsterdam on the weekend. Each of them had been specifically and neatly addressed and bore the exact postage for its slender weight. Unlike the old-fashioned parcel bombs, the new devices came in ordinary manila or airmail envelopes...
...tell they do, but the major problem is that they receive them as late as a year after publication. Since coming back I've raised some money to send them an airmail subscription to Nature, and I hope that we can raise money to send them airmail subscriptions to other journals. The one thing that I think is clear is that they will be read and used there...
...under siege. Gun-toting police and even armored cars patrolled runways; Israeli and Arab airliners were shunted to separate service areas. Baggage was Xrayed, stethoscoped, or simply scrutinized top to bottom, and some passengers were frisked for weapons. Briefly, nine of the 16 airlines that serve Israel suspended airmail and freight services. But Israel complained that such restrictions seemed to punish the victims more than the victimizers, and by week's end all but two lines had resumed full service...