Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Enclosed in each letter were two metered postcards (possible, postage: $800): "Sign one yourself-ONLY IF YOU BELIEVE IN JOHN NANCE GARNER AND HIS PROVEN RECORD and ask some friend to sign the other. . . . Just drop them into the mail; no postage stamps necessary...
...Lindbergh and Roscoe Turner but its Juan Trippe. He is president and co-founder (with his three brothers) of one of Mexico's most important native-owned airlines, the Compania Transportes Aéreos de Chiapas. Last year it carried approximately 17,000 passengers, 18,000 Ibs. of mail, 3,000,000 Ibs. of freight, made enough money to double its equipment. It now has 28 ships of a half-dozen makes, 14 pilots. Sarabia considers his airline worth about a million dollars...
Said Washington Columnist David Lawrence: "So also an arbitrary Government could say that all newspapers which do not conform to the Government's ideas of what constitutes good will in published articles, shall lose second class mail privileges...
...When the heavy boot of the 1934 air mail purge kicked fledgling subsidiaries out of many a big U. S. airlines nest, Canadian Colonial, a retarded bird from the brood of Aviation Corp., was able to go on flapping up the Hudson on its 342-mile route between Manhattan and Montreal. Under indifferent management, unfavorable airline conditions, it grew slowly to be a pipsqueak goose and for a long time brought its 15,000 stockholders nothing but deficits...
...August 1938 (after reputedly picking up $625,000 for himself and associates in a merger of Pennsylvania Airlines & Transport Co. and Central Airlines Inc.), Janas & Associates acquired control of Canadian Colonial, made Janas president. With U. S. Foreign Air Mail Contract No. i Sigmund Janas put the operating methods of successful American Airlines (TIME, May 22) to work. His DC-2's were flown by American's pilots, overhauled by American's mechanics, dispatched by American's radio operators...