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...wanted to last week, prepared to take another because they had to. The voluntary reduction, as high as 50%, was made in air express rates by five airlines operating with Railway Express Agency. The other, and far more important, was a 10% cut in the base pay of all airmail operators, politely "suggested'' to them by Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown...
...mail operators, assembled in conference in Washington, were told by the Postmaster General that a "responsible"' company had offered to undertake the daylight flying of all U. S. airmail for 30? per mile. (Present average compensation, about 60? per mile.) He did not name the bidder, but most of the operators guessed it was Motorman Errett Lobban Cord whose Century and Century Pacific Lines fly frequent schedules out of Chicago, and between San Francisco and Los Angeles. In view of the limitation of the offer to daylight flying, the transport men did not take it as a serious threat...
From the first of the year until last week only eight airmail pilots were killed in crashes. Within five clays last week another died and one saved himself. As usual, the mail was saved...
...flew last week to Manhattan. Mr. Collins' appointment, sponsored by Curtiss-Wright's potent Chairman of the Executive Committee Clement Melville Keys, was somewhat puzzling to many observers because he is not widely known in the industry, and his experience has not been specially concerned with airmail. He served in the Navy from 1905 to 1929 (chiefly with the bureau of supply & contracts), resigned to go to California for Curtiss-Wright. There he was in charge of the C.W. airports at Glendale, Alameda and San Mateo, and of two flying service bases. Also for a year...
Organization of the Pioneers may have been hastened by the growing clamor of the "independent" airlines-small ones, for the most part, with no mail contracts -for an investigation of Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown's method of awarding contracts to the big companies. The Watres airmail bill, under which contracts are awarded, was frankly designed to "protect the equities of the pioneer operator," a phrase which the independents see interpreted as "them as has, gets." Particularly enraged are they over the practice of granting to a big airmail operator an extension of his contract into territory where...