Word: cross-channel
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Dates: during 1921-1921
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...flights, even under the disadvantage of severe winter conditions and in spite of the disturbing accidents which have in several instances resulted fatally. Those who are convinced that mail by airplane is foredoomed to failure point to the recent retirement of a British air mail concern from the cross-channel route on the ground that winter flying did not pay. Certainly aerial letter-carrying has not yet reached the point where it can be supported as a private enterprise; government aid is the only source which can keep it going. And until human ingenuity has devised some means of rapid...