Word: biddinger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"... I believe we should make new contracts with commercial air carriers as soon as possible. ... I suggest that new airmail contracts be let for a period not exceeding three years on full, open and fair competitive bidding, with a limitation of the rate of compensation above which no contract will...
1) To make bidding "really competitive," only speed, useful load capacity and safety factors and devices should be considered in equipment specifications.
1) It was illegal for the Post Office Department to extend old airmail contracts, tide over potent contractors until the Watres Act could be passed in April 1930. 2) It was illegal to award big route extensions without competitive bidding. 3) It was illegal to permit collusion among the hand...
Senator Black was delighted that Mr. Brown had at last been smoked out. but during the opening session he could get little out of Witness Brown except the stubborn declaration that "there was nothing clandestine or secret" about the operators' conferences. Mr. Brown freely admitted his conviction that the...
In his long wrestles with the professional soldier, as represented by Lord Kitchener and Sir Douglas Haig, he generally enlists the reader's sympathy. Apparently Kitchener for a long time could not be made to see the necessity of increasing supplies of heavy guns and high explosives, objecting to...