Word: airmail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the most exhaustive aeronautical survey ever undertaken by the Federal Government opened in Washington as the Federal Aviation Commission, headed by Atlanta's small, roly-poly Clark Howell, began public hearings. An outgrowth of the airmail contract cancellations, the Howell Committee was a belated attempt by President Roosevelt to right a wrong and, at the same time, determine a national aviation policy. Chairman Howell had spent six weeks investigating, at Government expense, the condition of aviation in Europe, while his four fellow committee members had flown some 1000 miles on an inspection tour of airways and airports...
Last week Postmaster General Farley decided to expand U. S. airmail mileage some 15,000 miles, at an annual cost of $1,332,938. He added twelve new round-trips daily to established domestic airmail routes. He extended air mail service to five new cities by authorizing stops on existing runs at Providence, New Haven, Elmira, Scranton, Youngstown. He introduced airmail to the Hawaiian Islands by authorizing Inter-Island Airways, Ltd. to carry mail between Honolulu, Lihue, Hilo and Wailuku...
...February, the airmail situation developed and the little plane project was shoved into a back seat...
Last week another stamp, not yet issued, from another British crown colony, made philatelic news. Captain the Hon. Bede Edmund Hugh Clifford. Governor of the Bahamas, announced that he intended using an underwater color photograph taken by U. S. Submarine Photographer John Ernest Williamson as decoration for a new airmail stamp. Should The Crown's presses break down when his new stamp was being printed, he might produce one or two stamps which would eventually rival the 1¢ British Guiana's value. But it seemed more likely that the new Bahamian stamps would retain only their nominal value despite...
...required no more equipment for the same task. But when Paramount put Cecil Blount DeMille to work on this well-worn old tale, that old-time director could not even get started without $750,000, a majority of the unemployed actors in Hollywood, ten crates of real grapes by airmail from South America, an $800 history book and a month of conferences aboard his yacht. Last week, after four more months spent in actual production, the result of Director DeMille's elaborate functionings was placed before the public as Cleopatra...