Word: airmailed
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Three days after the Army started to carry the airmail, Lieut. Durward 0. Lowry of the 94th Pursuit Squadron, Selfridge Field (Mich.), took off at 4 a. m. from Chicago for Cleveland. An icy blast whistled over his open cockpit and below he could see the shimmer of deep drifting snow left by the blizzard. When his radio went dead he had to fight by guesswork along an unfamiliar course. Then a chill fog enveloped him and his plane started to fall. Frantically he tore open its mail compartment, began to dump sack after sack over the side. A farmer...
Inside the Senate Office Building at Washington all was snug and warm as Senator Black badgered onetime Postmaster General Brown about airmail contracts which the Administration had canceled for "fraud and collusion...
...Black tried to show that a dead friend of Mr. Brown's had made money from the sale of a Cambridge (Mass.) postoffice site, the onetime Postmaster General cut in: "I assumed the real issue before us was whether I followed the policy of Congress on ocean and airmail contracts, and further, whether I was honest." The hearing took two hours and 15 min. off for lunch...
...course. Lieut. Charles P. Hollstein was heading east over the Allegheny '"Hell Stretch" with mail from Cleveland to Washington. His radio, which the Army had less than ten days to install for airmail service, faded out. Completely lost, Lieut. Hollstein ran into a soupy fog, made a crash landing on an ice-clad hill outside Uniontown, Pa. His head and face badly gashed, he managed to scramble out of the wrecked ship and summon aid to rescue his mail...
Republican Senators produced evidence that Democratic Postmaster Farley had done no less than his predecessor when he extended an airmail route from Buffalo to New York...