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...added 1,000 Ib. per plane would not solve the airlines' wartime traffic problem. Only more planes can do that. But the Behncke-CAB row marks a milestone in air transport labor relations. Ever since 1934, when Behncke was an airmail pilot on the Chicago-Omaha run and was forced by bad weather to pancake his plane into a treetop, he has doggedly campaigned for greater safety in flying. Unhurt in the crash, he toppled ignobly to the ground while getting out of his wrecked ship, broke his leg, quit flying. Since its beginning in 1931 he has headed...
...Goshen, Ind. ball club in 1888. His Philadelphia Fly (1909) was the first popular aeronautical magazine. He later manufactured planes in Green Bay, Wis. designed and built a 26-passenger plane, made a pioneering profit flying it around the U.S. In 1920 he got the first U.S. airmail contract. A year later a Lawson plane crashed and the Lawson plane company followed suit...
...Could copies be sent airmail?" suggested John Snell of Hawaii's Equal Rights Commission. "TIME is a godsend to us out here in the middle of the Pacific. "And an Army Major has been paying us $1.00 a week ever since October to fly him as many TIME pages as we could cram into an envelope under the two-ounce limit for airmail...
...September 1939, burly, tireless Philip Gustav Johnson became president of Boeing Airplane for the second time in his life. His first term ended in 1934, when Boeing was part of United Aircraft, and Johnson, as United president, became a scapegoat in the U.S. Government's abortive 1934 airmail contract cancellation. When Boeing recalled him from Canadian exile five years later, the company was suffering from two interrelated problems: 1) sales were small, its profit & loss statement soaked in red ink; 2) production was painstakingly perfectionist and inefficient...
...less of what's going on in the war world-even at points only a few miles away-than anyone else in the warring countries. Getting hold of TIME gives us an informed feeling. Since Tunisia, back at the rear, I manage to snag onto someone's airmail edition quite regularly...