Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Banishment from the industry of all persons involved in the celebrated "spoils conference" of 1930, when Postmaster General Brown and the big operators redrew the airmail map, largely excluding small operators...
...advantage for Cord, who owns a fat slice of Northwest Airways, logical link in the new northern route. The old operators began a lot of bitter talking, and citizens a lot of puzzled thinking, about the sudden rise of Errett Lobban Cord to potential dominance on the airmail map. New Map. On General Farley's new airmail map (see above), with its four transcontinental routes instead of three, the new northern one extends from Newark via Buffalo to Chicago, thence westward to Seattle through Fargo, Billings, Great Falls and Spokane. The Newark-Chicago section is now operated with passengers...
Next down the map is the great transcontinental route of United Air Lines (∎o∎o∎o∎o∎), from Newark to San Francisco via Cleveland, Chicago, Omaha, Cheyenne, Salt Lake City. Other major routes flown by United and for which new contracts are to be let include the West Coast run from Seattle to San Diego, the Salt Lake City-Spokane "feeder" line and an important route from Chicago to Fort Worth via Kansas City. Only old United route not to get a new con tract is the Tulsa-Watertown feeder line
Next down the map is the "middle"' transcontinental route developed by Transcontinental & Wrestern Air ( ················), stretching from Newark to Los Angeles via Philadelphia, Columbus, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City, Albuquerque. This, the "Lindbergh" line, is the shortest route from coast to coast. Connecting the United and TWA transcontinental routes in two places are Western Air Express routes, one from Cheyenne to Albuquerque and the other from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles ( ). On the former route, a new mail contract will be awarded only...