Word: airmailing
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...teams in Alaska have gone with the wind of a slip stream. Nearly everything nowadays travels by airmail and groceries, milk, medicine, machinery. But last week travel in Alaska threatened to slow down to a Malemute's pace again. The Civil Aeronautics Administration ordered every airline in the Territory to place every field under 24-hour guard in case of sabotage or invasion...
...American-Grace Airways inaugurated its fifth weekly South American airmail schedule. In one year Panagra (jointly owned by Pan American Airways and W. R. Grace & Co.) has increased its services between Panama and the Argentine 140%, now flies 88,952 miles weekly...
...Davenport, Iowa, eight days after their son was officially reported killed, Mr. & Mrs. F. H. Baxter got an airmail letter from Honolulu. Wrote Eldon Baxter: "I am alive and well...
This was a job for pros. The R.A.F., which has for at least six months been ferrying planes from Freetown to Cairo, has lost about 20% of its planes for lack of the gadgets and getup necessary for steady, lossless shuttling. It was an echo of the 1934 U.S. airmail fiasco; the U.S. Army just could not handle the business...
...granted lush mail-subsidy contracts to major airlines, had thus evaded the law requiring competitive bidding for Government contracts. The President did not wait to ask questions. He called in Postmaster General Farley, Attorney General Cummings, Secretary of Commerce Roper, Secretary of War Dern. Then he canceled the airmail contracts and ordered the Army to take over the flying of the U.S. mail until a new contract-subsidy system had been worked...