Word: airmailing
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...mystery story in the U. S. last week was the airmail situation. If anybody had an inkling of what would happen, he kept his peace. With some 40 conflicting bills in Congress. Postmaster General Farley intimated he would drop his temporary contract plan if permanent legislation is passed before April 20, when bids for temporary contracts are to be opened...
...hold a White House Study conference with Postmaster General Farley, Attorney General Cummings and Secretary of Commerce Roper. By the time the President was well out to sea on the Nourmahal, announcement was made in Washington of one more change in the Administration's airmail policy...
After tortured weeks of criticism and recrimination, the Post Office Department was ready to hand the airmail back to private enterprise, thus relieving the Army of its ill-starred postal duties.* Pending permanent airmail legislation Postmaster General Farley invited private carriers to bid on three-month renewable contracts for 17 routes comprising some 18,000 miles of the 24,000 miles flown before the Feb. 9 cancellation order. Bids were to be submitted within 15 days by companies able to begin operations 30 days after obtaining contracts. Rates must be no higher than 45? per airplane mile...
Nobody was greatly pleased by the Administration's latest airmail plans unless it was the small independent operators who thought they saw their chance to get into the field. Democratic Senators O'Mahoney, Logan, McGill and Erickson decried it. Airline operators, rumbling concerted protest, argued that lines not now engaged in air transport could not get ready to carry mail 45 days hence. Most vociferous was President Richard W. Robbins of Transcontinental & Western Air ("The Lindbergh Line"). Using such words as "insane," "crazy quilt," "ghastly blunder," "gorgeous comedy of public error," Mr. Robbins described last week...
...help Army postmen out of their financial hole, the emergency airmail bill in Congress provides all those on airmail duty with a $5 per day expense allowance. But for a fortnight the House and Senate shuttled the bill inconclusively back & forth while flyers ruefully counted their pennies...