Word: airmail
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...Airmail. A measure for restoring the airmail to commercial operators is now urgently needed since the Army Air Corps' mail service, proving too deadly, has been drastically curtailed...
...year's No. 1 archeological hoax. André Malraux is a handsome young writer who has done some poking around in French Indo-China. In 1933 he was awarded the Prix Goncourt, top French literary kudos. Last month in a plane borrowed from a friend in the airmail service he and Capt. Corniglion Molinier, army pilot, took off from Paris for Djibouti, bent on finding the capital of the dusky queen of Biblical legend. Last week's meager reports indicated that the two men flew from Djibouti across the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb and 900 mi. northeast...
Next day President Roosevelt called to the White House General Douglas Mac-Arthur and Major-General Benjamin D. Foulois. Last month before he canceled all domestic airmail contracts the President had been told that the Army could handle the job. General MacArthur had known nothing about the Army airmail plan until newsmen told him. But General Foulois, eager for his Air Corps to make history, had told the Post Office Department he could do the job. and they had told the President. What was the matter? Had he been misled into a policy that was damaging the Administration with...
...Army Air Corps was given the temporary assignment of carrying the airmail. . . . This action was taken on the definite assurance given me that the Army Air Corps could carry the mail...
...football team who has to get the ball down the field in some way or other, whether it be over, under, around, or through the opponents,' Nothing will be accomplished by standing still, and he is obliged to use a policy of trial and error. His action on the airmail question was obviously wrong, but this was an impetuous move. Roosevelt had had reports from inspectors that the air transport companies were practising all sorts of fraud in the way of putting heavy stones in the mail sacks and weighing them three or four times, and his natural hate...