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Significance. United acquires NAT'S contract airmail routes between New York, Chicago and Dallas. Joined with its own Boeing lines, operating between Chicago and San Francisco, United now controls a complete (and unique) transcontinental system, and the largest total system in the U. S. passenger service is soon to be inaugurated on the New York-Chicago division...
Domestic. Hailed as the "salvation" of airmail and passenger operators, the Watres Airmail Bill last week was passed by the House of Representatives. If approved by the Senate, the law will: 1) Change the present unequal compensation to operators from a "per pound" basis, which varies from 78? to $3, to a uniform "per mile" scale, the Postmaster General contracting for a fixed space in each plane; 2) provide for mail contracts with passenger lines, now losing heavily; 3) protect the equities of airmail operators who have pioneered their present lines...
Immediate plum of this great air fight: a Government airmail contract which United, having operated its group at a profit during the past hectic year (TIME, March 31), feels justified in trying to acquire, but which Curtiss-Keys, having been efficient managers, might ultimately retrieve...
...Army Air Corps training, he collided in midair with a classmate's ship. His second forced jump came the same year, test-flying a new ship at St. Louis. He jumped at 300 ft. altitude, landed too fast, dislocated his shoulder. In 1926, pushing blindly through fogs with airmail, looking for a rift to get down to land, he made his third and fourth jumps, the last from an altitude of 13,00-0 ft, a night jumping record...
...tidal mud marshes of New Jersey. Her airports are too far away, are all subject to fogs which render navigation impossible. (The seaplane base in New York harbor, while decreasing the distance to the centre of the city, will still be affected by fogs.) Because of fogs, U. S. airmail removed its original terminal from Curtiss Field, L. I., to Hadley Field, New Brunswick, N. J., a distance twice as far from Manhattan...