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...blue chips and it has shouldered the second heaviest domestic traffic burden. Its routes stretched 10,079 miles, including a Mexican subsidiary, Lamsa, second greatest on the continent (American is first); in 1946 United accounted for 18% of total passenger miles and about 30% of all domestic airmail...
...long after, in 1933, trust-busting New Dealers took over the Government. They promptly canceled all airmail contracts because of "collusion" between the airline operators in setting rates, split up Bill Boeing's trust and "exiled" Johnson from the airline business for five years. In the crisis, there was no one but Patterson to take on the job of running United, and pull it out of its tailspin (United's stock fell from $35 a share just before the cancellation order to $14 when the Army took over the mail routes). Patterson won back...
There were bills to: recondition the vessel Prowler and return it to the Pomperaug Council of Boy Scouts (Bridgeport, Conn.), who had surrendered it for purposes of war; amend the Constitution to let Congress regulate marriage and divorce; issue 3? airmail postcards on "good stiff paper"; and authorize federal funds for fighting cattle grubs...
...postage-paid airmail order card showing our special Christmas rates is bound into this issue. Please try to airmail it back to us today...
...removed (TIME, Oct. 7).*The Guardian, however, never confuses circulation with influence: in its own city it is fourth in a field of four. Its foreign staff, shattered by the war. and its crack London bureau were getting back^ to full strength. And in a new overseas edition, an airmail version of its weekly, the paper was making its voice heard overnight to a select and growing audience (now 1,644) in the U.S. and Canada...