Word: airmailed
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...Railroad to handle its tickets and to admit Ludington buses to the Penn terminal in Manhattan. At the end of the first year Ludington had carried 66,000 passengers, showed a net profit of $8,073. Skeptics wondered if the Ludington books were kept in the manner required of airmail operators by the Post Office Department; Executive Vice President Gene Vidal insisted that a profit of even $28,000 might have been rightfully claimed...
Long promised by Democrats is a "new deal'' in airmail subsidies, a breaking of the system fostered by Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown. Last week the Senate acted to make the 1933-34 airmail appropriations part of the new deal, struck $19,000,000 from the Post Office Appropriation Bill, left it for the next Congress to insert, if it chooses, in a deficiency bill...
Vexed by the Senate's action, airmail contractors were not shocked. Aware that airmail is a potent means of Administration publicity and patronage, they chose to regard the Senate's action as 1) a slap at Postmaster General Brown and 2) a determination to let the incoming Administration get full credit for whatever is done about airmail in the next four years, extensions or economies...
While the Senate was arguing, Postmaster General Brown drew the wrath of the House Post Office Committee and some operators by juggling airmail routes in precisely the manner which the law provides but which his critics call ''arbitrary." He gave Transcontinental & Western Air a mail route from Los Angeles to San Francisco as an "extension" of its New York-Los Angeles run. The extension parallels United Air Lines. Also to T. & W. A. he gave a route from Columbus to Chicago; to American Airways an extension from Buffalo to Detroit (joining its Detroit-Chicago). Both the latter extensions...
...burning wreckage of an airplane.* Asbestos pouches are used only for registered mail and jewelry. Despite the fire hazard, the Post Office had a proud record to announce last week. In the fiscal year ended last June it lost only .01% of 8,846,000 Ib. of airmail carried. All of the loss was by fire. In the previous year the loss was .03%; the year before that...