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Last week, Export bigwigs were dizzy from the worst blow in four years of airline planning. A Senate subcommittee turned down a $500,000 airmail appropriation to finance their preliminary transatlantic flights. On general principles the State, War and Navy Departments were all behind Export in the Capitol corridors. (The Navy has stood aside to let Export have its three big warlike Sikorskys in the spring.) That was little consolation. Export must await another deficiency appropriation (probably until next year) before trying again. For the turndown of what looked like a sure thing, committeemen gave no official explanation...
Broadcasters know just how they stand with McKay via special delivery or airmail after each program. When one of McKay's men goes way off in his score, McKay writes or phones to inquire whether a hangover or domestic trouble has got him down. Almost invariably the man admits one difficulty or the other. To McKay each error is known...
...spite of violent protests from Pan Am: When foreign nations begin competing for Atlantic airlanes, two U. S. air lines may come in handy. Great Britain announced last week that Airways Atlantic, Ltd., subsidiary of big British Overseas Airways Corp. which canceled its survey flights last October, would begin airmail & passenger service within 30 days from "somewhere in England" to New York City's LaGuardia Field-pending CAB approval...
Britain's plans stirred up rumors that Germany wants an uncensored airmail route between the Reich and the U. S. (In the summers of 1937 and 1938 Deutsche Lufthansa had made weekly experimental flights to New York.) From abroad also came reports of Nazi pressure on the Petain Government to carry out the plans of Air France Transatlantique which got CAA permission in May for experimental non-commercial flights to LaGuardia Field. Application by either Government for U. S. landing rights might well bring the first test of whether the U. S. is going to do business with Hitler...
...Postal bondholders' interest in the new Postal, what they get will depend on whether the land lines can work a miracle, stay out of the red. Main obstacle: a big competitor, Western Union, has had lean years too, the amount of business (badly nicked by telephone and airmail competition) probably cannot support two profitable systems...