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...While this year will undoubtedly be the worst that commercial aeronautics has ever experienced ... it will be the best from the standpoint of re-establishing the industry upon a firm foundation. The economic, sieve has been at work, sifting out the insecure and the unprepared who rushed into the industry to supply a demand that did not live up to their anticipations. The gold paint has at last been erased from commercial aeronautics...
...Dunning's basic innovation was "countervailing duties." If the U. S. duty on cold storage eggs is raised or lowered to X¢ per dozen, then the Canadian duty on U. S. cold storage eggs automatically goes to X¢. From the Liberal standpoint of preferring to have free trade, the Dunning scheme looks like an honest effort to set Canadian duties no higher than "circumstances make necessary" and to lower them again at the first sign of "cooperation" from the U. S. or other high-tariff countries...
...transit organization at Geneva has asked eminent airmen for helpful suggestions. The message of Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, published last week: "A uniform [world] system of markings and signals should be decided upon, and a comprehensive meteorological and radio reporting system established. Aviation must be considered from an international standpoint." Dr. Hugo Eckener and General Italo Balbo, Italian Air Minister, likewise pleaded for close international co-operation to develop air navigation. A proposal of the Swiss delegates: that European nations divert part of the government subsidies which they now receive for aviation, to a pool for the development of international...
...Jones had never won, because he privately admitted that to win it was his keenest ambition, because no matter how things might come out he was obviously the best golfer entered, critics in their despatches and sport followers in their talk discussed last week's tournament from a standpoint of "Jones against the field." But few experts figured that he was sure to win. Even the greatest golfer in the world must have a bad round now and then, and in any tournament where five days of 18-hole matches lead up to a 36-hole final chances...
...alleged frauds in the Post Office Department resulting in certain Post Office leases being attacked as fraudulent. Neither Congress nor your magazine has apparently considered the innocent bondholders who are the real sufferers in this controversy. I am writing this letter to you from the bondholder's standpoint and trust you will publish...