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Some of the trouble was due to the rise in operating costs, which has sliced the profits of most U.S. companies. But most of the trouble was peculiar to the airlines: 1) unprecedented expenditures to expand routes, increase personnel and buy new equipment; 2) a $5 million drop in airmail revenues; 3) "no-show" passengers, who are costing the lines an estimated $8 million a year (CAB is expected to approve a penalty on "no-show" passengers soon...
Today she still gets 1,000 letters a week. Her postwar mail is loaded with missives from faithless war wives, bewildered veterans, bobby-soxers who want to know how to grow up. Everybody gets an answer; in the case of suicidal correspondents it goes by airmail. Often it is the same answer ("Men are a selfish lot," etc.) that worked half a century ago. But the questions have changed, from "Should I help a gentleman on with his coat?" to "Is it all right for me to spend a weekend in Atlanta with a boy friend...
...doubted the interest and loyalty of our British readers after four years of mistreatment, they-like Brendan Bracken-reassured us by their response (hundreds of them wrote in with uncharacteristic British enthusiasm) to the first issue of TIME that reached them by airmail. They were happy to get TIME on time, and they said so. Some excerpts from their letters...
Under Vargas, Gomes rapidly made himself his country's leading expert on aviation. He organized Brazil's military airmail routes, agitated for a strong air arm. As World War II came to the Americas, he took command of the air force on northeastern Brazil's strategic bulge. A little later, while American engineers and Brazilian laborers feverishly hacked out bases in the jungle for the vital air route to North Africa, Gomes backed them up with all his might...
...used against Goliath, and who spent their spare time stripping the copper wire off the line of telegraph poles. The nomads explained that they knew all about war: their ancestors had fought a dandy one against the Sumerians in 3000 B.C., and their ruling Khan unfailingly subscribed to the airmail edition of TIME...