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The U.S. Mail was expensive, since postage rates for newspapers had been raised drastically by the War Revenue Act of 1917; it also took several days for the papers to reach some customers.

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Interest in aviation was still strong after Charles Lindbergh's celebrated 1927 solo flight from New York to Paris.

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In 1929, he paid $8,000 for a Curtiss Robin C1 two-seater monoplane, christened the Newsboy.

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