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	Air Mail Scandal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Air Mail Act of 1930, passed on April 29 and known as the Watres Act after one of its chief sponsors, Rep. Laurence H. Watres of Pennsylvania, authorized the postmaster general to enter into longer-term airmail contracts with rates based on space or volume, rather than weight.
		At the time of the scandal, the Air Corps was in the midst of lobbying for a more centralized control of air operations in the form of an establishment of a General Headquarters (GHQ), Air Force.
		The project, termed AACMO (Army Air Corps Mail Operation), was placed under the supervision of Brig.Gen. Oscar Westover, assistant chief of the Air Corps.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Air_Mail_Scandal (2011 words)

	Airmail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Airmail (or air mail) is mail that is transported by aircraft.
		A postal service may sometimes opt to transport some regular mail by air, perhaps because other transportation is unavailable, but it is usually impossible to know this by examining an envelope, and such items are not considered "airmail".
		The choice to send a letter by air is indicated either by a handwritten note on the envelope, by the use of special labels called airmail etiquettes, or by the use of specially-marked envelopes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Air_mail (603 words)

	Lindbergh: U.S. Air Mail Service Pioneer
		During this period he twice had to bail out from the mail aircraft, and although on the first occasion the mail was destroyed, some of the mail is believed to have survived the second crash, as one piece has been found.
		Mail then could be delivered across the continent in as little as 29 hours eastbound and 34 hours westbound (prevailing winds from west to east accounted for the difference), which was two to three days less than it took by train.
		By means of the Air Mail Act of 1934, the government once again tendered the mail to the private sector, but it did so under a new set of rules that would have a significant impact on the industry.
	www.charleslindbergh.com /airmail (2628 words)

	North Coast Air: Stop Dreaming. Start Flying. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Mail then could be delivered across the continent in as little as 29 hours eastbound and 34 hours westbound - prevailing winds from west to east accounted for the difference which was at least two days less than it took by train.
		By means of the Air Mail Act of 1934, the government once again returned airmail transportation to the private sector, but it did so under a new set of rules that would have a significant impact on the industry.
		It was the first pressurized aircraft, meaning that air was pumped into the aircraft as it gained altitude to maintain an atmosphere inside the cabin similar to the atmosphere that occurs naturally at lower altitudes.
	www.northcoastair.com /Resources.htm (6027 words)

	Air medics deliver healthcare in the remote Amazon
		National Air Mail's single-engine Cessna had to fly through a thick haze created by fires raging in the rain forest, but the aircraft picked up the patient on a ramshackle landing strip and whisked him away to the neurologist.
		Air Mail doctors also tended to the stab wounds and broken arms of rubber-tapper Elizário Lopes after he'd gotten the worst of a machete fight with a colleague.
		Upon arriving in Itamarati, the Air Mail team encountered Raimundo da Souza, a former rubber-tapper who is enduring the physical scars and isolation from an old case of leprosy.
	news.mongabay.com /2005/1013-wsj.html (1501 words)

	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Delta Air Lines
		They worked on finding a solution to the boll weevil infestation of cotton crops and concluded that the "dusting" of an insecticide powder from the air would be the most effective form of treatment.
		Born from this decision was Huff Daland Dusters, Incorporated, a crop-dusting operation begun in Macon in 1924 and moved to Monroe, Louisiana, in 1925.
		In 1930 the Delta Air Corporation (as it was then called) expanded eastward to include service to Atlanta, the fastest growing city in the South, and westward to Fort Worth, Texas.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?path=/Transportation/Air&id=h-1302 (2737 words)

	Michelle Malkin: AIR ENRON: HEADS ROLL, VICTIMS SHAFTED
		Their departures from the embattled social-services agency are tied to the ongoing fallout from the highly unusual and possibly improper loan to Air America, as well as other dubious fiscal practices, sources said.
		But an Air America official told The Post yesterday that both sides had agreed to a payment plan months ago and that they were on schedule with their payments.
		Air America announced it was big, CNN and the other gullible boosters took it at its word, and, when it became clear, there was simply not enough audience for what it was offering, it was inevitable that slyer minds would have to find a way to circumvent the shortfall.
	michellemalkin.com /archives/003222.htm (710 words)

	The Recovering Democrat: More on the Air America Scandal: The Check Is In The Mail
		If the loan was made to Air America, then it was an obligation of Air America that the new ownership would have assumed upon acquisition of the radio station by operation of law.
		"Air America has not followed that recommendation." But an Air America official told The Post yesterday that both sides had agreed to a payment plan months ago and that they were on schedule with their payments.
		Air America is saying the right things - i.e., "we are going to pay the Boys and Girls Club back" - but is definitely falling short on the execution.
	therecoveringdemocrat.blogspot.com /2005/08/more-on-air-america-scandal-check-is.html (1189 words)

	1940 Air Terminal Museum - Houston Aviation History Timeline
		Contract Air Mail Route 29 is inaugurated by Gulf Coast Airways between Houston and New Orleans.
		The contract air mail carriers are beginning to offer passenger flights during the day to a few brave souls.
		New Orleans-based Weddell Williams Air Service is awarded Contract Air Mail Route 29 from New Orleans to Houston as a result of air mail contract re-bidding used to resolve “Spoils Conference” air mail scandal.
	www.1940airterminal.com /houstonaviationtimeline.htm (3628 words)

	Sgt Grit's Marine Forum - The Military Mail Scandal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Long-standing problems hampering mail delivery need to be resolved, begins a draft report by the General Accounting Office, the congressional watchdog.
		At a moment when the Pentagon's leadership is conducting a bitter urban war, the problems of soldiers getting mail from their loved ones and being able to cast their votes can get short shfirt.
		The report reveals that all mail destined for Iraq during 2003 combat was held in Kuwait for 23 days, a period not included in official measurements of delivery time.
	www.grunt.com /forum/topic.asp?ARCHIVE=true&TOPIC_ID=17040 (731 words)

	United Airlines - Era 3: 1934-1940
		The "Air Mail Scandal" of 1930 was, in a sense, a blessing for the pioneering companies that were part of the vast United conglomerate.
		The word "scandal" was hurled by an overzealous media who accused then-Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown of master-minding a "spoils conference" in May 1930, to dispense favors to his airline cronies.
		When the smoke cleared, United regained all of its air mail routes, but was forced to divest itself of its non-airline affiliates.
	www.united.com /page/middlepage/0,1454,2288,00.html (282 words)

	Air Force Academy Rape Scandal
		In the last 10 years, 142 cadets at the Air Force Academy made charges of sexual assault.
		Discover the shocking stories behind one of the worst scandals ever faced by the United States military.
		If you were a victim of rape or sexual assault at the Air Force Academy, if you have any information that you would like to provide, or if you would like to confidentially contact any of the victims who appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show on today's show or their legal representatives, contact josephjmadonia@yahoo.com.
	www.oprah.com /tows/pastshows/200312/tows_past_20031208.jhtml (185 words)

	PBS - Chasing the Sun - United
		Fallout from the air mail scandal of 1934 forced airlines to break apart from aircraft manufacturers.
		At the time, BAT was the air carrier of the largest aviation holding company in the world, United Aircraft and Transport Company.
		In 1934, a scandal erupted over how the former Postmaster General had granted air mail routes to the nation's biggest carriers.
	www.pbs.org /kcet/chasingthesun/companies/united.html (568 words)

	The Air America scandal - PittsburghLIVE.com
		But the raging reverends are nowhere to be found as a scandal involving the liberal radio network Air America and a Bronx, N.Y., inner-city charity for poor children brews.
		At the center of the controversy is Evan Montvel Cohen, the disgraced former chairman of Air America, who was in charge of the liberal radio network at the same time he was serving as Gloria Wise's director of development.
		Air America's flagship New York City station is housed on Park Avenue at WLIB-AM, owned by Inner City Broadcasting.
	pittsburghlive.com /x/.../opinion/columnists/guests/s_360782.html (666 words)

	FAA History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		On May 15, 1918, the first air mail flight was made from New York to Washington, DC by an Army pilot in an Army aircraft.
		Plans were made to extend the air mail route all the way to the West Coast.
		There was no ‘air mail’ per se - local postmasters picked bags at random to send to the airfield.
	www.ama500.jccbi.gov /afss/History/FAA.htm (1336 words)

	National Postal Museum
		The Air Mail Act, also known as the Kelly Act of February 2, 1925, recognized the leadership role of the postal service in the aviation field.
		The act's purpose was to "encourage commercial aviation" by authorizing the Postmaster General to contract with airlines to carry mail.
		The first five CAM routes were contracted in 1925 to Colonial Air Transport, Inc. (Boston to New York); Robertson Aircraft Corp. (Chicago to St. Louis); National Air Transport, Inc. (Chicago to Dallas); Western Air Express, Inc. (Salt Lake City to Los Angeles); and Walter T. Varney (Elko, Nevada, to Pasco, Washington).
	www.postalmuseum.si.edu /exhibits/2c2d_contract.html (250 words)

	Air Force Rape Scandal Grows - CBS News
		Roche also said Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. John P. Jumper was traveling to the Air Force Academy Thursday to meet with cadets.
		Allard had criticized Air Force investigators for leaving Colorado without talking with 10 current cadets who have said they were raped.
		He also said he was unhappy the investigators did not consult a civilian rape crisis center whose counselors say they have heard from 22 cadets in the past 15 years who reported being assaulted.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2003/03/11/national/main543490.shtml (620 words)

	ABC News: Air Force Scandal Results in Reforms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		As Air Force cadets return to classes this month, they are seeing a new system for handling rape allegations, reforms put in place throughout the military in response to the sex scandal that rocked this prestigious school more than two years ago.
		AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. Aug 25, 2005 (AP)— As Air Force cadets return to classes this month, they are seeing a new system for handling rape allegations reforms put in place throughout the military in response to the sex scandal that rocked this prestigious school more than two years ago.
		The scandal here broke in January 2003 when female cadets said they were being punished for minor infractions like drinking alcohol when they came forward to report sexual assaults.
	abcnews.go.com /Politics/wireStory?id=1069415&page=3 (498 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Americas \| Sex scandal shakes US Air Force
		The US Air Force has removed the leadership of its elite academy following allegations that dozens of women cadets who reported rapes were ignored or reprimanded.
		Air Force officials said that four top officials at the Colorado Springs academy will be replaced, two by women, in an attempt to implement measures aimed at providing a safer environment for the cadets.
		The allegations, which have caused a national scandal, have led to several military investigations of the academy being instigated.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/2890539.stm (425 words)

	CorpWatch : USA: Boeing Tanker Deal Rigged from the Beginning
		The tanker leasing arrangement, now thankfully dead, was questionable on its face, the result of a back-door legislative maneuver; if it had gone through, the Air Force would have paid too much for planes that it might not need, or that at least might not be the best solution to its aging tanker fleet.
		As chummy as the Air Force was with Boeing, officials were hostile to a possible competitor for the tanker deal, European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co. (EADS) and its Airbus division.
		Even as she was negotiating with the Air Force about whether the tanker lease was a good deal, Office of Management and Budget Associate Director Robin Cleveland asked Mr.
	www.corpwatch.org /article.php?id=11714 (740 words)

	Patterico’s Pontifications » Air America Scandal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		There’s the accounting scandal angle (no one seems to know what happened to the money; Air America’s current managers have known about the shady loan for more than a year but did not tell law enforcement officials).
		Prediction: As soon as the scandal hits the MSM the guy that was involved is going to turn into a Bush Republican.
		The problem is that the approximately $875,000 that Air America has stolen from the Gloria Wise Boys and Girls Club in New York City would cost the networks 432 listeners $2,025.46 apiece, and I’m not completely certain that all 432 listeners can pony up that kind of money.
	patterico.com /2005/08/06/3423/air-america-scandal (1534 words)

	Air Force Pitch for Boeing Detailed (washingtonpost.com)
		The e-mails McCain released add detail to previous disclosures about the scope and intensity of the Air Force's lobbying effort, mostly working with Boeing, to defend against early complaints from the Office of Management and Budget and various Pentagon analysts that the lease was a costly Boeing bailout.
		Air Force spokesman Douglas Karas declined to provide detailed comment on the e-mails but said they reflect "negotiations on an acquisition program that is now behind us" and will be reviewed by the defense secretary before talks are restarted.
		Druyun is solely responsible for her misconduct," Karas said, "and the fact that she was caught, convicted and sentenced reflects that the checks and balances in the system work.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A63815-2004Nov19.html (999 words)

	TheDenverChannel.com - News - 7NEWS Investigates: Rape Victims At Air Force Academy Afraid To Report
		Air force academy officials have responded to a 7NEWS investigation which revealed that some female cadets who report being raped are themselves punished.
		General Taco Gilbert, commander of the cadets, released a statement which said in part, "Allegations that sexual misconduct goes unpunished at the Air Force academy are unfounded and untrue...
		Ruth is a former Air Force Academy cadet who is now attending a small college in upstate New York.
	www.thedenverchannel.com /news/1978136/detail.html (1442 words)

	Exposing the military mail scandal \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		The mail scandal promises a repetition in this year's elections of the 2000 difficulties recording votes by overseas military personnel.
		A year ago, The Air Force Times reported backed-up mail to the Iraq war zone would fill three football fields stacked 10 feet high.
		The paper begins, "we do not understand the problem" that these companies are "attempting to solve." Before "any solution can be seriously considered," it adds, "the specific problem or problems must be identified." When bureaucrats question whether anything is wrong, they really are protesting private outsourcing of functions that they now mishandle.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040412/news_114799.html (603 words)

	Air Force Sex Scandal Gets Hotter - CBS News
		Rick Sallinger of CBS station KCNC-TV in Denver reports that Air Force promises of reform are being put to the test in the court martial on rape counts of First Lt. Joseph Harding.
		The proceedings were put on hold last week over a victim's privacy issue, when civilian rape counselor Jennifer Bier refused to turn over subpoenaed records of her sessions with accuser and former cadet Jessica Brakey.
		Dozens of Air Force Academy female cadets say they were sexually assaulted or raped by male cadets at the school, and The Early Show looks at whether the women are now being judged themselves.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/06/27/earlyshow/main704478.shtml (607 words)

	Political Pie » Air America Scandal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Air America figuratively invaded the community center and pillaged the money from the poor kids and elderly people of New York.
		The ability for Air America to survive is dropping daily; they are leaning on the fence to bankruptcy as it is and this scandal is going to through them over the edge.
		The moonbat-clogged Air America radio station is making quite a lot of headlines in the blogverse lately, which is more than can be said for the MSM.
	www.politicalpie.com /?p=41 (518 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/United Airlines
		UAL originated in the air mail service of Walter Varney, founded in 1926 in Boise, Idaho.
		Following the Air Mail Scandal of 1930 and subsequent government restrictions, by 1934 the company still held its routes but had lost its relationship to Boeing, lost its president Philip G. Johnson to Trans-Canada Airlines, and lost much of the profit in their government mail contracts.
		In 2001 the company lost $2,137 million on revenues of $16,138 million and applied for a $1.5 billion loan guarantee from the federal Air Transportation Stabilization Board established in the wake of September 11.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/United_Airlines (2283 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The first air traffic control tower was established in 1935 at Newark International Airport in New Jersey.
		With its regulated air compressor, the 33-seat Stratoliner could fly as high as 20,000 feet and reach speeds of 200 miles per hour.
		All the airlines had been losing money since the postal reforms in 1934 significantly reduced the amount they were paid for carrying the mail, and all were at risk of losing postal routes (still key to staying in business) to a low competing bid at the next Post Office auction.
	instruction.bus.wisc.edu /dharmatuck/444/ata1.doc (5079 words)

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