HSC Web Site: http://www.hollywoodstampclub.com/ HSC SETARO, HOLLYWOOD STAMP CLUB DIGITAL HSC Editor HOLLYWOOD EDITION 14 August 12, PHILATELIST 2020 INDEX Milky Way Galaxy on US SURFACE MAIL IS Stamps …..…. Page 7 BACK? ….. Page 4 RUSSIA’s TRANS SIBERIAN RAILWAY on STAMPS .. Page 2 RAIN on STAMPS … Page 8 END OF WW II OCCUPA- TION STAMPS Page 5&6 Movies Studios on stamps …….. Page 3 C-130 Hercules Aircraft P. 9 1 HSC Web Site: http://www.hollywoodstampclub.com/ HSC SETARO, HOLLYWOOD STAMP CLUB DIGITAL HSC Editor HOLLYWOOD EDITION 14 PHILATELIST August 1, 2020 RUSSIA’s TRANS SIBERIAN 1916. Expansion of the railway is still tak- Today the Trans-Siberian Railway carries ing place today, with connecting rails going about 200,000 containers per year to Eu- RAILWAY on STAMPS into Mongolia, China and North Korea. rope. Russian Railways intends to at least The Trans-Siberian Railway is a network Before WW I and between WWI and II mail double the volume of container traffic on of railways connecting Moscow with or packages sent from Europe to the Far the Trans-Siberian and is developing a fleet the Russian Far East. With a length of Esat (China and Japan) would go “VIA SI- of specialised cars and increasing terminal 9,289 kilometres (5,772 miles), from Mos- BERIA” using this train. Germany would capacity at the ports by a factor of 3 to 4. cow to Vladivostok, it is the 3rd longest send many letter to Japan Via Siberia. This By 2010, the volume of traffic between railway line in the world. was very convenient because commercial Russia and China could reach 60 million tons (54 million tones), most of which will The railway was built between 1891 and aircraft could not cover these long dis- go by the Trans-Siberian. 1916 under the supervision of Russian gov- tance. ernment ministers personally appointed by With perfect coordination of the participat- Tsar Alexander III and his son, the Tsare- ing countries' railway authorities, a vich Nicholas (later Tsar Nicholas II). Even trainload of containers can be taken from before it had been completed, it attracted Beijing to Hamburg, via the Trans- travelers who wrote of their adven- Mongoli- tures. The Trans-Siberian Railway has con- an and nected Moscow with Vladivostok since Trans- Siberian lines in as little as 15 days, but typi- cal cargo The Trans-Siberian line remains the most transit times are usually significantly long- important transport link within Russia; er and typical cargo transit time from Japan around 30% of Russian exports travel on to major destinations in European Russia the line. While it attracts many foreign was reported as around 25 days. https:// tourists, it gets most of its use from do- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans- mestic passengers. Siberian_Railway#Today 2 Movies Studios on stamps following year, MGM wholly acquired UAMG ror remake) carry a United and folded it into MGM Television. Artists copyright. The first United Artists Corporation (UA), currently arthouse film to bear the doing business as United Artists Digital Stu- United Artists was revived UA name was Things You dios, is an American television digital pro- Can Tell Just by Looking duction company. yet again in 2018 as Unit- at Her. United Artists Founded in 1919 hired Bingham Ray to run by D. W. Grif- ed Artists Digital Studi- the company on September 1, 2001. Under fith, Charlie Chap- his supervision, the company produced and lin, Mary Pickford, os. Mirror, the joint distribution venture between MGM distributed many art films, includ- and Douglas Fair- ing Bowling for Columbine, 2002's Nicholas banks, the studio and Annapurna Pictures was renamed as United Artists Releasing in early February Nickleby, and the winner of that was premised on allowing year's Academy Award for Best Foreign actors to control their own 2019 just in time for UA's 100th anniver- sary. In 1999, UA was repositioned as a Language Film, No interests, rather than being Man's Land; and dependent upon commercial specialty studio. MGM had just ac- 2004's Undertow, studios. UA was repeatedly and Hotel Rwanda, quired The Samuel bought, sold, and restruc- a co-production of tured over Goldwyn Company, which had been a UA and Lions Gate the ensuing Entertainment, and made deals with com- century. Metro-Goldwyn- leading distributor of arthouse films. panies like American Zoe- Mayer acquired the studio trope and Revolution Films. Ray stepped in 1981 for a reported After that name was retired, MGM folded UA down from the company in 2004. In 2005, $350 million ($1 billion a partnership of Comcast, Sony and several today). into Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures. G2 Films, the re- merchant banks bought United Artists and On September 22, 2014, named Goldwyn Company its parent, MGM, for $4.8 billion. Though MGM acquired a control- and MGM's specialty London only a minority investor, Sony closed MGM's ling interest in entertain- operations, was renamed distribution system and folded most of its ment companies One Three Media United Artists International. staff into its own studio. and Lightworkers Media, then merged them The distributorship, brand- The movies UA had com- to revive United ing, and copyrights for two pleted and planned for Artists' TV produc- of UA's main franchises release Capote, Art tion unit as United (Pink Panther, and Rocky) were moved to School Confidential, The Artists Media MGM, although select MGM releases Woods, and Romance and Group (UAMG). (notably the James Bond franchise co-held Cigarettes were reas- However, on De- with Danjaq, LLC and the Amityville Hor- signed to Sony Pictures cember 14 of the Classics. © 3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Artists#Public_company US SURFACE MAIL IS BACK? quired for unloading, customs clearance account), Globegistics (now owned by and road transit should be considered. The Asendia), and APC Postal Logistics. In 2007, the US Postal table below outlines a typical sea transit Service discontinued its It seems that the USPS is tanking ad- delivery cycle that begins upon arrival to vantage of this infrastructure that was cre- outbound international the destined port: 14 days. surface mail ("sea mail") ated privately after it decided to cancel Sur- service, mainly because The first 0f such shipments happened on faced Mail in 2007. of increased costs. Re- April 20th. 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SS Obergruppenführer Karl Wolff, signed a In 1945 17 stamps were is- surrender document at Caserta after pro- sued Unwmk. longed unauthorized secret negotiations Litho. Perl. 11, with the Western Allies, which were viewed from 1 g.