Word: airmailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York, March 8--President Roosevelt's plan for restoration of the airmail to private carriers would crush aviation organizations responsible for most of the improvements which have made American airlines dominant, Ernest F. Breech, President of North American Aviation, Inc., charged tonight...
...dinner in balmy Savannah "General" Farley explained that the Adminitration's airmail policy would end "abuses which grew out of an unfair and stifling competition...
...first week of airmail carrying came to an end the Army totaled up its score. Five pilots were dead, three of them killed fortnight ago before the Army officially took over. Six pilots were more or less seriously injured. Eight planes were wreckage. Aside from lost man power and morale, the Army Air Corps, according to conservative estimates, was out $300,000-$25,000 for each of the lost planes, $20,000 in insurance and training costs for each dead pilot...
When commercial operators lost their airmail contracts, they warned Washington and the country that the Army, for all its fine spirit. was not equipped or trained to step into the breach (TIME, Feb. 19). Their words were airily swept aside as sour grapes. But last week a sense of shocked surprise ran through the land. Citizens began to wonder if, after all, the commercial operators were not right, if President Roosevelt was not wrong on his airmail policy. Newspaper editors wailed loudly that the toll of the Army's first week with the airmail was too high a price...
What President Roosevelt had put the Army up against was described by Major Clarence L. Tinker, commanding the western division of the Army airmail service at San Francisco. Said Major Tinker...