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Instead of spike-driving, these two gentlemen and a convivial party of 58- including Postmaster General Brown, Superintendent Earl Wadsworth of the U. S. airmail service, Vice-Chairman Graham Bethune Grosvenor of Aviation Corp. (holding company of American Airways), Poloist-Banker J. Cheever Cowdin of Bancamerica-Blair, and many a wife- repaired the night before the line's opening to Atlanta's smart Piedmont Driving Club for a banquet. Georgia's Governor Hardman and Atlanta's Mayor Ragsdale made speeches...
People who are reluctant to use the airmail are in few cases deterred by the higher postage (5¢ for first, 10¢ for each additional ounce). More general is the notion that an airmail letter may never reach its destination. Last week the Post Office department made known that the fire hazard is less for airmail than for mail shipped by rail or water. And burning is the only manner in which air mail ever is lost...
...fiscal year ended June 30, airmail planes carried safely 7,715,741 Ib. and lost 4,665 Ib.?or .06%. Since then, 30 asbestos mail pouches have been put into trial service with the hope of eliminating fire loss entirely (TIME, July...
Middle Line. The first westbound passengers over this middle line did not, of course, pay for their rides.* Riding on the first plane, followed by two planes with mail, were four distinguished deadheads: Postmaster General Brown; Harris M. Hanshue, president of the line; Earl Wadsworth, superintendent of airmail; Amelia Earhart. Cargo was eight sacks of mail. Well before noon the vanguard plane was past Camden (Philadelphia's airport of entry) and into the Alleghenies via Harrisburg. Here the pilots watched out for "dirty stuff," the fog, snow & sleet that had harassed Chairman of the Technical Committee Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
...late as last May, in Buenos Aires, he was plotting the present rebellion with revolutionists in Brazil. On the morning of May 10 he left for Rio Grande do Sul in a plane of the Buenos Aires-Paris airmail. The plane fell into the sea off Montevideo. All on board except "Lucky Juan" drowned. He swam lustily ashore...