ATLANTIC AIR-MAIL SERVICE
SUBSIDY APPROVED IN U.S.A.
GIANT FLYING-BOATS
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NEW YORK, February 15.
The House of Representatives Appropriations Committee today approved a request for funds to subsidise a trans-Atlantic air-mail service starting on November 1 on twice-weekly trips- between New York and Southampton with giant passenger-carrying flying-boats.
The contemplated initial appropriation recommended is about 750,000 dollars, based on a mail subsidy of two dollars a mile.
Mr. William Howes, assistant Post-master-General, said that bids for the mail contract would be invited. The contract would probably be for 10 years. Mr. Howes stated that arrangements with the British Government were in the process of finishing up agreeably. He disclosed that the northern 3500-mile route, via Newfoundland,' would be used for six months of the year, and the southern 5000-mile route, via. Charleston, Bermuda, and the Azores, for the other six months. The air-mail service, Mr. Howes further explained, would cost from 21 to 25 cents a half-ounce letter. Colonel Edgar Gorrell, president of the Air Transport Association .of America, testified that a 42i-ton 'plane is under construction. It will carry about 60 passengers.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 40, 17 February 1937, Page 11
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