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...Pullman porters had some difficulties similar to yours. Like you, they are scattered all over the country, and some are on the road all the time, so that it is extremely difficult for them to assemble. Further more, they met a most stubborn resistance on the part of employers. Airmail and passenger-line pilots, like you, originally resented the suggestion that they join in a labor group. They are now affiliated with the American Federation of Labor...
...rise in passenger and cargo revenue, in part to a new depreciation policy changing all planes from a three-year to a four-year life basis. The fact that United still shows a loss is due, according to President William A. Patterson, to the inadequacy of its airmail subsidy rate, which was 12% less per pound-mile in 1935 than in 1934 and only about half what other domestic airlines received...
...their resources to pay for a fleet of huge land airliners which would be twice the size of the DST, carry 40 passengers, mount four motors, cost $200,000 apiece. According to the "Big Five," such super-transports would enable the airlines to make money, cease being dependent upon airmail subsidies. At present, air traffic is increasing so rapidly that 14-passenger planes now in service are incapable of handling it. With 40-passenger planes, say operators, traffic volume would be almost trebled while operating cost remained the same. In addition, according to the airlines, standardization would...
Many thanks for news of my nephew, Hewitt Frenyear Mitchell, airmail pilot, Shanghai to Peiping, who shared with a news correspondent a diplomatic resistance to Japanese searchers of his plane [TIME, Dec. 9]. Will you now give his correct name, and perhaps a few other facts? Born of New England ancestry, raised among the raisins of the San Joaquin Valley, he worked his way through Stanford largely by radio repairing, overcame parental doubts, took army aviation tests and found eyesight deficient in one minor point. His oculist, who had helped prepare army tests, advised special exercises for a year. Doggedly...
Last week, warmed by an announcement from Postmaster General Farley that he would ask Congress for an Atlantic airmail appropriation, the conferees agreed to compromise. Tentative conclusions...