Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since early in December, businessmen have been flooding Senator Harrison with mail and messages to establish friendly relations with the next chairman of the Finance Committee. Few of them really had anything to fear from him. On taxation he opposes a Federal sales tax (though his own Mississippi has a State one), is inclined to go to the income-tax-paying class for more revenue. A vociferous foe of Republican protection, he is a red-hot supporter of President-elect Roosevelt's reciprocal tariff scheme. Under his chairmanship Industry can expect deep cuts in its protective rates but Agriculture...
From the outset Ludington Line was watched with keen interest by the entire industry, since operations without mail contracts were supposedly doomed to failure. Ludington set a new low for fares, a new high for economy of operation, based its hope of success on its convenient schedules. It not only borrowed railroad tactics but got the Pennsylvania Railroad to handle its tickets and to admit Ludington buses to the Penn terminal in Manhattan. At the end of the first year Ludington had carried 66,000 passengers, showed a net profit of $8,073. Skeptics wondered if the Ludington books were...
Three months later Ludington began to slip. It was getting stiff competition from the mail-subsidized Eastern Air Transport, which had begun a passenger service over the same route. A reorganization shook out Vice Presidents Vidal and Paul Collins, who had built the line with the Ludingtons' backing; shook in as president James M. Eaton, formerly of Pan American...
Meanwhile Postmaster General Brown, advocate of airline monopolies, had been urging E. A. T. to buy out Ludington. Negotiations last year got nowhere. Finally, the story goes, the Postmaster General threatened to give Ludington a mail contract unless E. A. T. bought. E. A. T. bought last week, announced it would maintain all Ludington schedules except Washington-Norfolk, which E. A. T. already served. Thus passed, as Cord's Century Lines passed a year ago, another of the "independents" into the Big Four of U. S. airlines...
Most curious was the extension of American Airways from Muskegon across Lake Michigan to Milwaukee. American Airways does not fly that route. Kohler Aviation Corp. (not a mail carrier) does. Reputedly, American Airways was given the extension on condition that it sublet the contract to Kohler...