Word: airmail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foreign soil. This permission was withheld because European nations insisted their air companies have an equal share in the new route. This was impossible for two reasons: 1) only the U. S. had airplanes economically capable of the passage; 2) the U. S. cannot under present laws let an airmail contract to any but U. S. firms, using U. S. material, U. S. crews...
...Today the first U. S. airmail starts over a regular course destined for the Philippines, 8,000 miles away. Succeeding schedules will be extended on to the coast of China. . . . Before many months a three-day service from America to Asia will be established on regular schedules...
Into the President's White House office one day last week filed seven airmail pilots. All were ordinary in appearance, extraordinary in achievement. They were...
...each of these seven heroes President Roosevelt last week handed the nation's highest award for airmail pilots-the Air Mail Flyers' Medal of Honor...
...evolved a comprehensive, businesslike system which now keeps two stenographers and a pair of secretaries busy. Mrs. Dare Starck McMullin, an old friend of Mrs. Hoover, is the secretary who culls the Hoover mail. Secretary Paul Sexson, a handsome young Stanford graduate, goes through a dozen newspapers airmailed daily from the East and a sheaf of pertinent editorials which Hoover friends also airmail in from ail over the country. In addition, to keep the "Chief" posted on national and world affairs, the Stanford War Library, which Trustee Hoover helped to endow, is required to send in a daily report...