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...minority, whether it is destined to held office or not, can be effective as a prod to those in power, and a large progressive vote can frighten a government controlled by vested interests into correcting at least its grosser delinquencies. Moreover, a strong Socialist vote will have the effect of consolidating the issues, which are not properly brought out by Democratic-Republican rivalry. It will give the conservative stand one core, instead of its separate and erratic spheres of action in the two old parties, and will make a vote for, or a vote against this stand, both more decisive...
...Passed (16340-146) a bill by Ohio's Grosser authorizing the Postmaster General to negotiate with dirigible builders on a transoceanic mail service by airship, sent it to the Senate...
Transatlantic mail & passenger airship service was brought another step nearer when the House passed the Grosser bill providing long-term mail contracts (TIME, March 21). If the bill passes the Senate, which has received a favorable committee report. Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. will begin immediately a building program to provide scheduled service in three years...
...which moves unendingly across the North Atlantic. Though it has occasionally sallied forth offering to carry a share of the load, aviation has thus far failed. But last week new carrying credentials were being written for the young giant when the House Interstate & Foreign Commerce Committee reported favorably the Grosser Airship Bill authorizing the Postmaster General to let transoceanic mail contracts, and the Senate's Committee reported the McNary Bill to promote dirigible airlines...
Meanwhile the House Committee on Interstate & Foreign Commerce concluded hearings on the Grosser bill which would provide mail subsidies for transatlantic airships. President Paul Weeks Litchfield of Goodyear-Zeppelin and his vice president Commander Jerome Clarke Hunsakcr told the committee that their corporation could have two ships ready within three years to begin weekly service of 2½ days per trip. Operating cost they estimated at $70,000 per trip; maximum mail revenue $63,000: maximum passenger load, 80 (at $750 fare...