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...mail operators, assembled in conference in Washington, were told by the Postmaster General that a "responsible"' company had offered to undertake the daylight flying of all U. S. airmail for 30? per mile. (Present average compensation, about 60? per mile.) He did not name the bidder, but most of the operators guessed it was Motorman Errett Lobban Cord whose Century and Century Pacific Lines fly frequent schedules out of Chicago, and between San Francisco and Los Angeles. In view of the limitation of the offer to daylight flying, the transport men did not take it as a serious threat...
...indicating a hand that is one trick or even two-tricks stronger than the requirements for a one-bid. Opponents of the Official system maintain that this very fact gives added merit to the Culbertson system: the opposing side does not know the exact strength of the bidder's hand...
...Chapman was forced to cry for more Government help (TIME, June 29). In reply, the Shipping Board directed that the U. S. Lines be sold to the highest bidder. The deadline on Aug. 13 found two sealed envelopes in Shipping Board's mail box. One was a $3,000,000 offer from a brilliant young combination called International Mercantile Marine-Roosevelt. The other had come from irrepressible Banker Chapman who had found financial allies in the Pacific-the Robert ("Round the World") Dollars, the San Francisco Fleishhackers and Steamshipman Kenneth Dawson of Portland. Their bid topped the rival offer...
...Onto the auction block in Manhattan last week went a batch of trade journals. A bidder might take all or any part of the lot-the 17 units of bankrupt National Trade Journals, Inc. When the last hammerblow had fallen, the properties were in the following hands: Publisher Howard Myers bought back his Architectural Forum, aristocratic journal published in two semi-annual volumes with a yearly subscription price of $20; Reuben H. Donnelley Corp. of.Chicago (classified telephone directories) bought National Cleaner & Dyer; Industrial Press (publishers of Machinery) bought Heating & Ventilating; Interior Architecture & Decoration bought Good Furniture & Decoration; a newly organized...
...malfeasance in office. Also indicted was Bertram L. Succop, onetime director of the city's Department of Supplies, whom Mayor Kline dismissed as soon as the present investigation into municipal food- buying loomed. A grand jury found that food contracts had not been let to the lowest responsible bidder, that contracts had been given to firms under fictitious names, that contemplated purchases of over $500 had not been advertised as required by law, that purchases had been made without municipal authorization. The reflection was that Mayor Kline had been grafting. Commented he: "The charges are only technical...