Word: airmail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fulton Lewis Jr. is big, blond, smart, a onetime ace Washington correspondent for Hearst. As a Universal Service correspondent, he uncovered the airmail scandal of 1934. In 1936 he turned up the espionage activities of since-jailed onetime Navy Lieut. Commander John Semer...
...chief operating handicaps have been its poor airmail contract and the lack of feeders for its slim cross-country line. The new Civil Aeronautics Authority has partly remedied the first by awarding T. W. A. $400,000 extra mail compensation two months ago and increased further compensation. John Hertz tried to remedy the second last year by unsuccessfully bidding for Eastern Air Lines (TIME, March...
...Airmail service is a big-city luxury. U. S. airlines, hungrily eying the enormous potential postal business for them in small towns, have had to pass it up, since collecting mail on a "milk-route" would be slow because of many stops, uneconomic because of the high cost of landing fields...
...citizens have only just begun to support their three transcontinental air routes. Whether the passenger traffic from 11,120,000 Canadians could support one did not bother Trans-Canada's operators. The line is Government-controlled and should pay its way by airmail revenue alone...
...thus putting Trans-Canada into the arms of C. N. R.'s President Samuel James Hungerford. Sam Hungerford promptly passed Trans-Canada on to a U. S. expert, stubby, taciturn Philip Gustav Johnson. Mr. Johnson had been making trucks in Seattle, Wash, since 1936, after the 1934 Roosevelt airmail purge with its compulsory reorganizations had thrown him out of the presidency of United Air Lines...