MAILS BY AIR
TRANSATLANTIC SERVICE
DEFINITE STEP TAKEN
(Received Ist December, 8 a.m.)
WASHINGTON, 30th November
A definite step toward the inauguration of a transatlantic air mail service was taken by the Post Office Department to-day. Bids will be opened on 29th December for an air mail route from New York by Norfolk (Virginia) or Charleston (South Carolina), and JhenA^iHa-maton^fiermnAaja'and- the
Azores, or some other practicable route, to a point in Europo to be designated by the Postmaster-General. The return will bo made over the same route. The contract is to run for ten years, the period beginning on Ist June, 1931.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 131, 1 December 1930, Page 9
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