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...Airmail Sirs: I have been a TIME enthusiast and subscriber since my undergraduate days. At times some of your pert comments have nettled me but in your March 5 issue I find a type of journalism that I consider distinctly unTIME-worthy. I refer to the article, "Army's First Week" under your Aeronautics section...
...unnecessary contrasts between the unfortunate airmail crack-ups and the "snugness and warmness of the Senate Office Building''? . . . The entire article is shot through with ugly implications and vicious insinuations, the repeated inference being that the contracts were canceled merely in a misguided effort to make political capital, and that the Administration is unconcerned about the disasters resulting therefrom. As a deliberate, skillful, and unfair propaganda piece in opposition to the cancelation of the contracts, and questioning, by inference, the good faith of the Administration, it could scarcely be improved upon...
...Aeronautics in the March 5 issue. . . . No coloring of the facts, no superlatives, no emotionalism but by the simple, unexpected arrangement of the facts, he drives home a moral with unusual force. He doesn't set forth an argument or a conclusion but the absurdity of the whole airmail situation hits you between the eyes and you get a thrill down your spine...
...more letters on Airmail, see TIME Letters Supplement...
Looping 32 foreign countries and with no domestic airmail contracts, Pan American rides serenely above the storm which has enmeshed other U.S. companies (see col. 2). Pan American has long dreamed of connecting with Britain's three-continent Imperial Airways by way of Bermuda and the Azores. That goal seemed one notch nearer last week with the 8-42 ready to fly, with two more clippers under construction at the Sikorsky plant and three more at the Glenn L. Martin plant in Baltimore...