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...Corp. structure was loose. Its subsidiaries numbered 80, included unrelated small lines, charter services, schools, factories. (The list is now about 20.) The company grew to be not the titan that United Aircraft & Transport is but an extremely potent and coherent transport system holding ten of the 23 domestic airmail contracts. However the growing pains were acute. When Avco was six months old the 1929 crash occurred. Immediately afterward the company altered its investment policy, put much of its ample cash into other than aviation stocks. There were three presidents in three years, President LaMotte Turck Cohu taking office last...
Capt. von Gronau has expressed approval of the North Atlantic route for airmail service, but disapproval of the North Pacific route on which "the weather changes every 15 minutes and there is so much...
...Alaska. While it enjoyed a romantic, lusty existence in a land where the airplane is an immeasurable boon, Alaskan Airways never made money. Prime reasons were Avco's lack of facility for remote control of operations; and Alaskan Airways' unprofitable mail contracts. These are not true airmail contracts but "star routes"* won from the dogsled contractors by underbidding. The contractor is required only to carry the mail, receives no extra compensation for flying it. (A 3? stamp on a letter is sufficient.) Thus, on Alaskan Airways' eight "star" routes between the Seward Peninsula, the Yukon and above...
...Saint-Exupéry-Century. Author St. Exupery used to be an aviator but he does not write like any of the aviators with whose literary experiments the U. S. public is familiar. Night Flight, a second novel, is a brief account of disaster on the South American airmail. Fabien, carrying the mail from the far South to Buenos Aires, flies through a golden twilight in which "night was rising like a tawny smoke." Presently the evening becomes less calm. At the airport, Rivière, "who was responsible for the entire service," waits anxiously for Fabien and two other...
...Adopted (189-to-139) a resolution by Illinois' Sabath to investigate the Post Office Department with special reference to office construction, airmail contracts, methods of economy...