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...Painter Pai-shih, by airmail, one July 26 TIME...
...Post Office Department celebrated the 30th anniversary of the first airmail flight-a deed of derring-do by an Army pilot who, on May 15, 1918, flew 144 lbs. of mail 218 miles from New York to Washington in a World War I "Jenny." On the anniversary date, two jet planes flew eight ounces over the same route. Time: 27½ minutes...
...month ago, Pan Am and Panagra carried their fight to Congress. They pointed out that Braniff had asked for airmail subsidies of $3,000,000 a year, 22 times what it had originally estimated it would need. Last week they made a last-ditch effort to get CAB to hold new hearings...
...idea was picked up on all sides. Speaker of the House Joe Martin, who ranks second only to the President of the U.S., gave it his official blessing. Send airmail letters, urged Speaker Martin. "A 15? stamp might turn the tide for peace." New York's post office noted that airmail letters to Italy increased forthwith 100%. Martin's hope, and the hope of Italo-Americans, was that these exhortations from the world's greatest internationale, the U.S., might turn the tide of international Communism-that letters from son to father, brother to brother, cousin to cousin...
...decide to send TIME to people like these, or to any others on your Christmas list, a postage paid air mail order card showing our special Christmas rate is bound into this issue. Please try to airmail it back to me today...