Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are now three editions of TIME AIR EXPRESS, with another soon due to appear. Most of these copies are still printed in this country on the world's fastest offset presses, then sped to Latin America by plane. But last year we began printing an edition for Mexico and Central America in Mexico City; last month we began printing in Bogotá for the north coast of South America-and very soon we hope to launch a third Latin American edition in Buenos Aires...
...circulation of TIME AIR EXPRESS is now close to 40,000-and if you have any friends south of the Rio Grande they have probably told you it is read by practically every American business man, diplomatic representative and Army & Navy officer down there-and by a very large percentage of the most important Latin Americans as well. Other U.S. magazines and newspapers arrive anywhere from two weeks to three months late, and so we feel TIME AIR EXPRESS has a more important job than ever today in keeping Americans and their friends throughout Latin America in touch with what...
...November 1941 Sheean took a clipper for the U.S. More than personal history was right behind and ahead of him. At Guam, the governor told Sheean about a recent delegation of islanders who had come to express sympathy. Said the governor: "I am very grateful, but I do not know why I stand in need of sympathy." Said the islanders: "Pardon, sir, but we think you are in the same position that the Spanish Governor was in 1898." At Wake Island, the signature just before Sheean's in the station master's wife's autograph book took...
These developmental projects include urban redevelopment; express highways through and around our metropolitan centers; reorganization and rebuilding of our terminal facilities; the development of our largely undeveloped river valleys, including hydroelectric power, reforestation, soil conservation, flood control, irrigation projects, sewage disposal projects, and cleaning up of polluted rivers...
With a vast fleet of Igor Sikorsky's newly perfected helicopters, Northeast planned to blanket New England from Manhattan to Fort Kent, Me., with a local airmail and express service operated from the rooftops of post offices and railroad stations in 400 cities and hamlets. Because the helicopter can fly straight up, straight down, backward, forward, horizontally, remain stationary in the air, and be brought to an immediate stop, any flat roof surface no larger than 9 by 12 ft. could serve as an adequate air station. Northeast would connect New England towns by direct helicopter service with main...