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...promise profitable operation" (possibly Cuban flying service, various flying schools). Aviation Corp., with its $19,000,000 cash resources, could well afford the "house cleaning" of items that would otherwise hang over to clutter up future balance sheets, and mitigate the good showing anticipated from benefits of the Watres airmail bill (TIME, April...
...Faster Airmail...
Year and a half ago the Post Office Department designated Newark Municipal Airport as official eastern terminus for the transcontinental airmail. National Air Transport, operator of the New York-Cleveland-Chicago route, insisted the field was unfit for night landings of heavily loaded Douglas and Boeing ships, refused to move its base from Hadley Field, New Brunswick, N. J. While a three-cornered dispute was waged, New Yorkers continued to wait an extra 90 min. for airmail to be transported from distant Hadley Field to Manhattan's postoffices. Last week there was an air pageant of jubilation above Newark...
...crash most dreaded by airmail men is the one that ends in fire. Unless the pilot can extricate the bags from the flames, the mail is surely lost, there being no perfected means of dumping the bags in flight in an emergency.* Post Office officials eyed with interest an experiment begun last week by National Air Transport and Railway Express Agency, with a fireproof and heat-proof cargo pouch developed by Johns-Manville Corp. This new bag was said to withstand a fire hot enough to melt sheet-metal and fuse pipes, without allowing even the sealing wax on letters...
Under the terms of the McNary-Watres Airmail Bill passed by the House last fortnight (TIME, April 28) and by the Senate last week, NAT'S mail contracts which would expire May 5 may be extended another six years without the Postmaster General's calling for other bids. However, with its plentiful passenger equipment (Transcontinental Air Transport) and strategically located airports (Curtiss-Wright Airports Corp.), the Curtiss-Key group may yet challenge Mr. Rentschler's bold claim that "the air between the coasts is not big enough to be divided...