Air Mail at Christmas Through Pratt and Whitney Skies
Map and Pictures courtesy United Air Lines recount a Christmas season of air express. Air pilots deliver gifts coast to coast as ships carry toys, jewelry, and perishable goods, with airports hosting festive meals for crews. The piece traces air mail’s 1918 start, postwar expansion, private contracts, and navigational aids guiding modern flights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Air Mail
Air Express
United States
Santa
Dasher
Dancer
Prancer
Vixen
Ponder
Blitzen
Pratt and Whitney
Curtiss
Fokker
Boeing
Corsair
Express
Los Angeles
Illinois
Santa Claus
All Express
New York
Detroit
Cleveland
Chicago
Western Newspaper Union
How Currency Moves From Treasury To Banks In 1932
A compact narrative explains the process by which new currency is produced and released. It outlines steps from treasury approval to three key officials unlocking the vault, through armored transport to Federal Reserve or national banks, with eventual destruction of damaged notes.
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Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Federal Reserve Bank
Treasury
Federal Reserve Agent
Federal Government
National Bank
Union Terminal
Washington
Central Post Office
Bureau
Federal Reserve Board
United States
Federal Reserve Banks
Federal Reserve
Western Newspaper Union
Umbrella Mystery Ends On Riverside Bus Ride
Mildred and Tom on a Fifth Avenue bus chase a London lost umbrella. A stranger, Jim Weldon, claims it as his and offers to return it to Mildred’s brother Biss Caldwell, hinting at a London connection. Mildred sets a Wednesday rendezvous, while Tom growls.
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McClure
WNU
Reynolds
Mildred
Tom
Theoman
Fifth Avenue
Riverside Drive
Fred
London
Paris
Jim Weldon
Strand
England
Ami
Hig
Biss Caldwell
Jim Welden
Ton
Method as a Progressive Transition in Education
Coleridge argues that method is mainly a way of transit from one state to another. If employed correctly, it becomes true method and facilitates progress. if misapplied, growth stalls and progress cannot be hoped for.
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S. T. Coleridge
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Alaska
Harry S. New
United States Postmaster-General
War Department
Waldorf
Philadelphia
Post Office Department
San Francisco