Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people would analyze the present airmail situation, they would soon realize why the large commercial aviation companies are the only concerns that can carry the mail successfully, and why the Army has failed so utterly in its attempt to transport the mail," said George F. Doriot, professor of Industrial Management at the Business School yesterday when interviewed by the CRIMSON. "It was perfectly natural to allow only the large concerns to bid for the contracts at the time they were issued, and I cannot understand why so many people are today complaining about this action...
...action of the President in ordering a curtailment of army flying is such a retreat. It is the abandonment of an experiment that proved tragic. The death of ten army mail flyers persuaded Mr. Roosevelt to act quickly. But when he recommends that the pending legislation be passed at once, the Chief Executive may also have been wrongly advised. For the bills which have been drafted at the request of the Post Office Department would, as they now are worded, prevent the re-establishment of air mail service in America...
...asked, who is going to bid for the privilege of carrying the air mail? New companies with no flying experience? Or old companies that are already carrying passengers and have set up organizations? That was the trouble in the first instance about competitive Lidding. The Post Office Department found it couldn't accept just anybody's bid. There had to be a determination of who would be able to perform, who could carry out the contracts. This is why the law provided for the award to the "lowest responsible" bidder and ultimately made it necessary for departmental discretion...
Meanwhile it is estimated that the users of air mail run into the millions and that approximately 80,000,000 pieces of air mail are carried annually. The volume had been slowly increasing. Passenger lines needed the revenges from air mail to help them make ends meet and earn a return on capital invested. New passenger lines would hardly be set up to compete with existing lines even if mail subsides were granted. For the history of aviation shows that there isn't enough volume of business on the main routes to justify new lines any more than there would...
Colonel Lindberg, the man who knows more about mail flying than anybody else in America, is here conferring with the Secretary of War and will see the President. If the Administration will forget Colonel Lnidbergh's public protest and devote itself now to straightening out the whole mess, there is nobody who can be of more help than the Colonel. He is an army reserve officer. If the War Department authorized him to organize the service and arrange for the letting of contracts for temporary service with the existing companies, until such time as the legistlation could be perfected...