Word: airmailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since the celebrated Farley-Roosevelt airmail cancellation, the Post Office has been as capricious with the airlines as a young girl is with her suitors. This airline application it grants; that one it turns down, often with no satisfactory explanation. One of its key policies has been to frown on any proposed extension of one airline or creation of a new one if it will compete with an established service (TIME, March 22). Since the Post Office controls the air mail subsidy, its word is tantamount to law and many a proposed extension has failed to materialize. Denver...
...North Atlantic service yet being in effect. To haul the estimated 20 tons of mail which will leave London each week, Imperial Airways, long equipped with huge old rattletraps, has acquired a fleet of 28 Short Brothers four-motored flying boats. Last week the Empire's great new airmail network hit a snag before it could be formally inaugurated...
...Freshman returned betimes, heart throbbing. But in that package, what a falling off was there! Special delivery airmail scaled Vassar's fate. He spared no words in tirade of deep hate...
...Harvard Stadium three weeks ago Charles Francis Adams, onetime Secretary of the Navy and Harvard Alumnus, wore a necktie striped with the Navy's blue & gold, watched Navy beat Harvard 20-to-13. Thinking the necktie a good omen, he sent it airmail to Rear Admiral Emory Scott Land, Chief of the Bureau of Construction & Repair, who wore it to the Army-Navy game, saw the midshipmen beat the Army...
...April 1927 an open-cockpit plane belonging to one Clifford Ball carried the first pouch of airmail between Pittsburgh and Cleveland. In 1929 Clifford Ball Inc. extended operations to Washington, carried the first scheduled passengers across the Alleghenies. Year later the company was reorganized as Pennsylvania Airlines. In 1934 it lost its mail contract in Postmaster General Farley's celebrated blanket cancellation. Complying with changed requirements, it extended its lines to Detroit, sought a new contract, but was underbid by a brand-new concern named Central Airlines which began flying the same route. Pennsylvania then reorganized as Pennsylvania Airlines...