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...authority of five members and an administrator at annual salaries of $12,000, and an air safety board of three at $7,500 annually, one of them to be an airline pilot. To the authority was entrusted control over mail subsidies, with authority to fix rates, determine routes on request and recommendation from the Post Office Department and designate carriers. The authority was also to set maximum passenger and freight rates as the I.C.C. does for rail and bus carriers, and enfranchise existing airlines with certificates of convenience and necessity, continuing all present mail contracts during good airline behavior...
...watch the 3,000,000 foreigners in France a special mobile police of 40 chiefs, 215 detective inspectors was recently formed to reinforce the famed Deuxieme Bureau of the War Ministry, watchdog of French official secrets. Also the Minister of the Interior was empowered to expel or fix the residence of any foreigners. By decree last week Premier Edouard Daladier transferred espionage trials from civil tribunals to military and naval courts. The military law prescribes death for espionage; hence spies caught in the service of a foreign power, gathering information on inventions, manufactures, industrial methods, maps, documents or military plans...
This week Field Marshal Göring extended even further State control over labor. He empowered labor officials to fix maximum rates of pay for work of all kinds, thus clamped down on rising labor costs...
Merchant Marine. Congress extended the Maritime Commission's power to fix rates, and to insure ship mortgages up to $200,000,000. It created a Maritime Labor Board with mediation powers...
...news from Africa is not tiptop. Ethiopian "bandits" go on "murdering" generals and bishops, The road-building fever has suddenly abated, throwing out of work 15,000 whites in a land of guerillas and flies, Africa will fix the white intruders and take care of her own in the long run. The cotton of Lake Tana has too short a fibre; the coffee of Harar costs more than Brazil; and it seems that King Tut and his gang sifted every grain of gold out of Ethiopia...