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Special editions came off presses from Taiwan to Fleet Street like confetti. Records for circulation, promotion, mass staffing, and words written were broken everywhere. At week's end the Miami News delivered to its readers a staggering 16-page, 33,000-word narrative describing the Apollo 11 mission. In New York, the Times devoted 18 pages to moon news. Even with a press run increased by 75,000, the Times literally disappeared from newsstands Monday morning-some copies going for upwards of $1 on the black market. Both the New York Post and Daily News datelined landing-day issues...
...American, Northwest and United Airlines have competed in the past, eight carriers will now vie for a share of the market. As a result, profits on the Hawaii run are likely to be marginal at best. In anticipation of the award, Western Airlines alone added 35 planes to its fleet, and it blames the delay in the CAB ruling for 31% of the line's $5,100,000 loss during the first five months of 1969. The long-disputed South Pacific route award finally went to American Airlines, which will fly to Australia, the Fiji Islands and New Zealand...
...many of the young, dreams of adventure have been replaced by the haze of pot. Even in war, the brave man is not often truly alone with death. The team supports him, the group succors him. In the Philippine night, during World War II, Admiral Mitscher ordered an entire fleet to turn on its lights. The lives of 100,000 men were risked to let some 200 pilots see their way home. In Viet Nam, 50 planes suspended their air war for eight hours to try to rescue Major Jim Kasler, a popular ace who had gone down over North...
...parallel Apollo 11 's trip to the moon, the Niña, the Pinta and the Santa Maria would have had to be accompanied by a fleet of dispatch boats filled with scientists, singers and scribes. Each day, one of the boats would have returned to Spain to report on the voyage, and the court would have been entertained by a new ballad about Columbus' exploits...
...Larger airlines have left the field clear for them in towns and cities where meager traffic will not support the costly big transports. And in many cases, the small carriers have made themselves essential. Rural Spencer, Iowa, found itself so isolated that town officials invited Minnesota's Fleet Airlines to provide regular service to larger cities and happily agreed to make up any losses...