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...their scheduled courses by pilots with more than 1,000,000 miles of air experience. Pioneer in long-distance night flying with passengers, United operates 23,000 miles of scheduled flights daily, carries more passengers than any other U. S. airline. Its midcontinent airway saw the first U. S. airmail service and was for ten years the only transcontinental air route. First airline to use planes built exclusively for mail & passengers. United likewise was first to inaugurate through multi-motored passenger plane service from coast-to-coast, first with a less-than-20-hr. schedule...
Prime obstacle to Floyd Bennett's capture of the airline business is the fact that Newark is the official metropolitan airmail terminus. The threat to move the mail elsewhere caused New Jersey's Governor Moore last week to wire Postmaster General Farley: "It would be rather a shabby trick to play upon Newark after it had spent such vast sums [$5,000,000] to facilitate the Federal mail service...
...observed in his logbook that he had missed only eleven days' flying that year. For fun, he decided to try flying every day. In rain, shine, snow and fog, he went up daily for a 15-minute spin. Even when sub-zero weather grounded the airmail Dr. Brock took off. In dead of winter snowplows cleared runways for him. When he came down ice was chopped from his wings...
...aviation's arch-critic. Now, as a witness in the Federal Aviation Commission's investigation, which last week turned mostly to War, Billy Mitchell looked once more upon Army aviation and found it bad. Chief target for his scorn was the Army's performance in carrying airmail. This he characterized as: "A miserable mess. . . . The worst show I've ever seen anywhere. . . . It's a wonder they weren't all killed...
James Aloysius Farley, Postmaster General, who predicted that the U. S. airmail system would become self-supporting within three or four years. Until that time, said Mr. Farley, in nearly the exact words of onetime Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown, it would be the Post Office Department's policy to continue financial assistance to mail-carrying transport lines. As to new airlines, the Department's position was that it was economically unsound to finance them in competition "with the lines we are trying to build...