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(Received 17, 8.45 p.m.) WASHENGTON, Feb. 15. The House Appropriations Committee to-day approved a reqnest for fundg to subsidise the trans-Atlantic air mail service starting on November 1. Twice weekly trips between New York and Southampton with giant paesengercarrying flying-boats are contemplated. The initial appropriation recommended about 750,000 dollara, based on the mail subsidy of two dollars a mile. Mr William Howes, assistant Post-master-General, said bids for the mail contract would be invited. The contract would probably be for ten years. Mr Howes stated that the arrangements with the British Government in progress were finishing up agreeably. He disclosed that the northern 3500-mile route via Newfoundland would be used for six months and the southern 5000mile route via Charleston, Bermuda and the Azores for the other six months. The air mail service, Mr Howes further explained, would cost 21 to 25 ceflts for a half ounce letter. Colonel Edgar Gorrell, president of the Aif Transport Aasociation of America, testified that a 42-ton plane was under construction and it would carry about 60 passengertG
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 28, 17 February 1937, Page 5
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