How America s Aviation Industry Got Its Start Transporting Mail
Before carrying passengers, Americaâs most iconic airlines hauled the mail. It was one of the riskiest jobs around.
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Before carrying passengers, Americaâs most iconic airlines hauled the mail. It was one of the riskiest jobs around.
The U.S. aviation industry got its start in the early 20
th century not by transporting people, but by moving America’s mail. At first, airmail pilots flew in flimsy open-cockpit planes through every kind of weather an experience that ranged from frequently harrowing to sometimes fatal. As routes expanded, airports proliferated and safer, more reliable aircraft were developed, the commercial air travel industry emerged, initially by piggybacking on airmail flights. The earliest passengers unceremoniously used mail bags for seats.
Editor s note: This article is a part of a series reviewing Utah and U.S. history for KSL.com s Historic section.
SALT LAKE CITY Monday marked this year s International Women s Day, which is in the middle of Women s History Month.
Women have played a vital role in Utah history, and some firsts in U.S. history also occurred in the Beehive State. For example, Salt Lake City was the site of the first election in modern U.S. history to be open to both men and women. Martha Hughes Cannon was also the first woman in U.S. history to serve as a state senator.
Portland Post Office faced ‘war of sexes’ 60 years ago when more women began to join department
Updated Mar 05, 2021;
Posted Mar 04, 2021
Postal clerk Vermell Akiyama said in 1959 the trouble at the Post Office was that there are not enough women. If there were more they wouldn t gripe about us being here. There would be too many of us to fight against.
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In 1959, nearly three decades before the U.S. Congress established March as Women’s History Month, a “war of the sexes” broke out in Portland’s post office.
The U.S. Postal Service, then called the U.S. Post Office Department, had decided that more women should be hired. Not everyone i.e., some of the men working at the post office was happy about this.
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The proposed stamps will feature Bayard Rustin, Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, and Jose Julia Sarria.
The United States oldest LGBTQ organization, the International Imperial Court System (IICS) of the United States, Canada, and Mexico (founded in 1965); and the oldest LGBTQ civil rights organization, the National LGBTQ Task Force (founded in 1973), have launched a national campaign asking the US Post Office Department to issue stamps honoring LGBTQ icons and trailblazers Bayard Rustin, Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, and José Julio Sarria.
The IICS and The Task Force were also the sponsors of the successful campaign that resulted in the issuance of the Harvey Bernard Milk U.S. postage stamp- unveiled in May of 2014, at the White House by President Barack Obama, on what would’ve been Harvey Milk’s 84th birthday. The two organizations were also responsible for the successful campaign to the Secretary of the Navy, which resulted in the