Word: airmailing
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Among other big air transport operators the name of smart Errett Lobban Cord has been anything but hallowed. He established Century and Century Pacific Lines parallel to "pioneer" services. Equipping his lines with his own cheaply operated Stinson tri-motors, he forced fares down. In his efforts to get airmail contracts he persuaded many a Congressman that the Government pays too much money to have its mail flown. In no quarter was he less popular than with American Airways (operating subsidiary of Aviation Corp.) which went before the Arizona Corporation Commission to thwart his competition in the Southwest (TIME, March...
...directorship, Motormaker Cord agrees not to engage in other air transport operations for two years. But he sees his position as a manufacturer materially strengthened. Although Avco denied that it was bound in any way to buy more transports from Cord's Stinson factory, Mr. Cord was confident that airmail contractors as a class would be willing to buy from him, now that he is no longer the industry...
...Heard Postmaster General Brown defend present airmail contracts, flay lower bids by "independent and irresponsible operators...
...early billboard-advertising tycoon of California, Walter Varney is advertising-wise. When, as the first airmail contractor in the Pacific Northwest (1925), he found people reluctant to send their letters by plane, Varney advertised. Last year he sold his well-developed system (Salt Lake City-Pasco-Portland-Spokane-Seattle) to United Air Lines, whose transcontinental system it joined at Salt Lake City, turned his attention to the highly competitive San Francisco-Los Angeles route, already operated by three other airlines on a three-hour flying schedule. He put highspeed Lockheed Orions on the run and lopped a full hour from...
...Heretofore all transcontinental airmail has been carried by United Air Lines via Chicago and Salt Lake, a source of much satisfaction to United and much grief to Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc., which flies to Los Angeles via Kansas City with relatively small mail loads. Last summer T. & W. A. put into service super-swift Northrop monoplanes which cut the transcontinental flying time down to 24 hr. for mail. Last week T. & W. A. had its reward. Los Angeles mail was rerouted by the Post Office to T. & W. A., the company's space contract upped from...