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...Civil Aeronautics Board moved last week to take the subsidy out of airmail payments to the booming U.S. domestic air transport operators. In two rate decisions it bypassed the old contract-type flat payment per mile flown, irrespective of the amount of mail carried, and substituted a pound-mile rate payment. The new policy affects Eastern Air Lines and American Airlines: in both cases the carriers will receive .3 mill for each mile a pound of mail is flown...
...Mail. At Fort Benning, Ga., Lieut. John J. Y. Lyons received an airmail letter mailed at Lewistown, Pa. It had gone: first to Australia, back across the U.S. to Ireland to another Lieut. Lyons, thence across the Atlantic to the U.S. Travel time: 109 days...
...airline operator, burly, whip-smart Philip Gustav Johnson was branded an airmail profiteer, publicly disgraced, finally booted out of U.S. aviation by the witch-hunting First New Deal (TIME, April 30, 1934). Last week the same "P.G." Johnson was a top-flight U.S. production hero and Seattle's No. 1 citizen. Reason: Under Secretary of War Patterson had just handed Johnson and his booming Boeing Aircraft Co. the Army-Navy Production Award-newest U.S. prize for war-production excellence. Said Patterson: "This is your nation's tribute to the patriotism and production effort of your plant...
...this triumphant comeback P.G. can thank his amazing aviation know-how, his endless vitality, his ability to inspire trust -to say nothing of the fact that none of the airmail charges was ever proved. P.G. started in aviation in 1917, when he landed a job in the old Boeing factory. Zest, bright ideas and an all-round knowledge of machines made him president in 1926. To get a bigger market for his airplanes, Johnson set up United Aircraft & Transport in 1928, soon whipped it into the biggest U.S. aviation combine. Then came the infamous airmail investigation which cost...
...uniform; Lieut. Colonel Charles R. Dawley (Rep., Montana), now in Australia, who announced his candidacy for Senator James E. Murray's seat. Meanwhile Garfield, NJ. was in a turmoil. Mayor John M. Gabriel, a second lieutenant at Fort Eustis, Va., is trying to run the town by airmail...