Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mail service has completely broken down. Formal orders by the President, that the army curtail in operations and confine flying to a few essential routes really means the Pencial disruption of nation wide schedules of delivery...
Unquestionalbly there were injustices and irregularities in the original award of air mail contracts. Undenbtedly officers of companies speculated and made profits, but the method of procedure for such things is to put the evidence before the courts, put the guilty in jail and meanwhile let the service to the public...
Fare from Los Angeles to Mexico City on L. A. O. is $105. Mr. Varney hopes to get a mail contract from the Mexican Government. To date, that concession has been the monopoly of Pan American Airways, which flies the Mexican mail from the capital to Brownsville. Tex. and Miami, and, through an affiliate, to El Paso and Nogales. Mr. Varney believes he can shoulder Pan American aside if he has the right politicians working for him. If he does, it will be a man-sized job. for Pan American is so deeply intrenched at home and in 32 other...
...world rights to the manuscript, the London Daily Mail paid $210.000 to the widow and family of Sir Henry Fielding Dickens, last of the ten Dickenses to die. For an unnamed price, United Feature bought North & South American serial rights. Second publishing rights were to be sold to smaller papers up to May 15, when Simon & Schuster will issue The Life of Our Lord in book form...
...remain a truckman for long. For some $60.000 he bought and became president of Export Steamship Corp., which operates between New York and the Mediterranean. When after the War the Federal Government set out to restore the U. S. merchant marine to its oldtime glory by means of mail subsidies and cheap construction loans, Exporter Herbermann got the first mail contract. His subsequent activities were aired last year before the Senate committee investigating air and ocean mail contracts. Discoveries: 1) the Shipping Board spent $1,825,000 to repair 18 ships which it sold bolt and keel to -Henry Herbermann...