Word: airmailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Return of the airmail to private carriers under fair competitive bidding...
...Transfer of airmail and transport supervision (from the Post Office and Commerce Departments) to the Interstate Commerce Commission...
...Banishment from the industry of all persons involved in the celebrated "spoils conference" of 1930, when Postmaster General Brown and the big operators redrew the airmail map, largely excluding small operators...
...advantage for Cord, who owns a fat slice of Northwest Airways, logical link in the new northern route. The old operators began a lot of bitter talking, and citizens a lot of puzzled thinking, about the sudden rise of Errett Lobban Cord to potential dominance on the airmail map. New Map. On General Farley's new airmail map (see above), with its four transcontinental routes instead of three, the new northern one extends from Newark via Buffalo to Chicago, thence westward to Seattle through Fargo, Billings, Great Falls and Spokane. The Newark-Chicago section is now operated with passengers...
...Buffalo, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati. Louisville, Nashville. Memphis, Little Rock, Dallas, Fort Worth, El Paso. Of the former mail routes operated by independents, new contracts will be awarded between Salt Lake City and Great Falls, Detroit and Milwaukee, Washington and Cleveland. Among independents hoping for a piece of the new airmail subsidy is the Boston-Maine Airways operated by Paul Collins and Amelia Earhart, who want the Boston-New York mail contract formerly held by American Airways. Most of the old contractors, such as United and the General Motors Group (TWA, Eastern Air, Western Air Express) are expected...