Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Debated the Treasury-Post Office Appropriation bill; eliminated (39-to-35) the $19,000,000 air mail subsidy, but did not (36-to-32) alter the $35,500,000 ocean mail subsidy; adopted (41-to-12) a "Buy American'' amendment, requiring the Government to use only U. S.-made supplies and equipment...
...small dealer but Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., one of the ''Big Four," slashed list prices 5% to 10%. It was the opening salvo of another major price war for the already war-ravished tire industry. The reason given was, as usual, the fact that the mail order houses had cut first in their spring & summer catalogs, out last month. Goodyear, Goodrich, U. S. Rubber and smaller Seiberling met the cut but only after cursing Firestone for upsetting the applecart once again...
Pointing out that mail order prices affect less than 3% of the replacement market, Vice President Robert Smith Wilson of Goodyear growled: "That the remaining 97% of the tire market should be disrupted under such reasoning is a matter to be greatly deplored." President James Dinsmore Tew of Goodrich argued: "In our opinion present economic conditions do not justify any reduction . . . and we cannot believe that any benefit to employes, security holders or the general public will result...
While the Senate was arguing, Postmaster General Brown drew the wrath of the House Post Office Committee and some operators by juggling airmail routes in precisely the manner which the law provides but which his critics call ''arbitrary." He gave Transcontinental & Western Air a mail route from Los Angeles to San Francisco as an "extension" of its New York-Los Angeles run. The extension parallels United Air Lines. Also to T. & W. A. he gave a route from Columbus to Chicago; to American Airways an extension from Buffalo to Detroit (joining its Detroit-Chicago). Both the latter extensions...
...just after the war, when certain young men made fortunes in the flying end of the game. That period is passed. But the aviation industry, like the older systems of transportation, needs designers, engineers, advertising men, business executives, and the host of employees necessary to the successful moving of mail, express, and passengers...