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Simón BolÃvar: Liberation and Disappointment
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In his bibliographic essay to Simón BolÃvar: Liberation and Disappointment, David Bushnell acknowledges that "the independence of Spanish South America -- as distinct from that, say, of Mexico -- has in recent years attracted little attention from foreign scholars." He skillfully fills that void with this scholarly, concise, and very readable synthesis. Comprised of 10 well-written and conceived chapters, a glossary of terms and concepts, six photos, three maps, two reproductions of stamps, and a "note on the sources," Bushnell's work makes a superb addition to undergraduate Latin American ...
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Focus On Philately: The world's first international, and regular, airmail service
Newspaper article from: Ukrainian Weekly, The
; ...s first international, and regular, airmail service PART I In the area of aeronautic...countries make claim to having the first airmail service. The problem in distinguishing...claim is valid lies in how one defines "airmail service." Upon closer examination...
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Enthusiast finds home for airmail memorabilia in Lawrence County, Pa., museum.
Newspaper article from: Beaver County Times (Beaver County, PA)
; ...And by happenstance, the pieces of airmail history that Naser is temporarily holding...the plane's instruments intact for the airmail run. Naser, 84, can tell, without...videotapes, how All American Airways operated airmail from 1939 to 1949. A messenger went to...
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Airmail plane to touch down in city
Newspaper article from: Wyoming Tribune-Eagle
; ...railroad tracks and rivers. When early airmail flyers got close to Cheyenne, for example...retracing the original transcontinental airmail route. Addison Pemberton of Spokane...restored versions of aircraft that carried airmail. They are celebrating the 90th anniversary...
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Airlines now fighting for airmail business.
Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
; ...bigger piece of the shrinking domestic airmail business. With federal security measures...compete for the business. For decades, airmail provided a dependable stream of revenue...So the postal service put its domestic airmail business out for bid and told airlines...
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Kale to provide airmail revenue accounting service to Finnair.
News Wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.
; Kale to provide airmail revenue accounting service to Finnair...Consultants today said it has bagged its first airmail accounting BPO contract from Finnair...Kale will provide a complete outsourced airmail cargo revenue accounting service to Finnair...
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75 YEARS OF AIRMAIL: PENNSYLVANIA PLAYED KEY ROLE IN HISTORY OF AIRMAIL
PR Newswire
; ...It is the 75th anniversary of scheduled airmail service in the United States. It is a...changed to Bellefonte. Today we take airmail for granted, but it wasn't always so...sacrifices of those early pilots that made airmail possible. Prior to scheduled service...
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'Unabomber' threat helps UPS, private airmail carriers.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; ...Federal Express, UPS and other private airmail carriers. Those carriers are benefiting...Service, which transports much of its airmail in the cargo holds of passenger planes...identification and display the contents of all airmail packages. At United Parcel Service...
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AIRMAIL
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...also call base agencies or use the chain of command. Callers to Airmail will not have their names printed in the Nucleus. To submit Airmail, call 846-4240, e-mail airmail@kirtland.af.mil, or write to: 377 ABW/CC Airmail, 2000...
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Post Office delivers airmail clanger.(News)
Newspaper article from: Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
; ...Tom Mullen You shouldn't have to use airmail to send a letter from Cheshire to Northumberland...because they hadn't paid enough airmail. The Royal Mail sticker reads: "The sender didn't pay enough airmail postage on this item, so we had to...
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Biplanes land here to celebrate airmail
Newspaper article from: Wyoming Tribune-Eagle
; ...Boeing 40C biplane, the kind that carried airmail in the 1920s. Pemberton and pilots Larry...country trip to mark the 90th anniversary of airmail flight. About 200 people greeted the...along one of the first transcontinental airmail routes. Cheyenne was one of the 15 stops...
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