Word: airmailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just announced a discovery concerning the nature of filterable viruses, responsible for many contagious diseases. Harvard has contributed its share of "brain-trusters," with Professor James B. Williams a special adviser to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, with Dr. John B. Crane a special investigator for the Airmail committees of Congress, and with Dr. Edward Chamberlin assisting the Railroad Coordinator. Lecturers have discussed the New Deal in its economic, legal, and political aspects, and have often deviated from their regular schedule to discuss events recorded by the morning newspapers...
...Nevertheless, the continuation of deaths in the Army Air Corps must stop. . . . Will you therefore please issue immediate orders to the Army Air Corps stopping all carrying of airmail except on such routes, under such weather conditions and under such equipment and personnel conditions as will insure . . . against constant recurrence of fatal accidents...
Thus did President Roosevelt, shocked and grieved by the death list of Army pilots and hounded by Republican Congressmen charging "legalized murder," retrace one step on his politically unfortunate course on the airmail situation. General Foulois answered by suspending all Army mail service for a few days while he and his aides conferred with Post Office officials on elimination of routes and schedules. Tentatively they planned to fly about 40% of the mileage formerly covered by private operators. A House Committee announced it would find out what, if anything, was wrong with the Air Corps' planes. While the President...
...biggest turnabout of the week was the President's decision to return the airmail to private hands. With Army flyers crashing, with others running into debt because the Senate had failed to pass temporary legislation authorizing their special expenses, the President asked for speedy enactment of new, permanent legislation...
...believe we should make new contracts with commercial air carriers as soon as possible. ... I suggest that new airmail contracts be let for a period not exceeding three years on full, open and fair competitive bidding, with a limitation of the rate of compensation above which no contract will be awarded...