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Roosevelt Plan Tied to Airmail Contractions Controversy
A 1934 reopening of U S airmail policy traces President Roosevelt aims to replace private contracts with a government backed system. Reed and Stratton pursue a three airline consolidation while Elliott Roosevelt and Stratton weigh wartime style control and law changes.
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Roosevelt
Geles
Reed
Elliott
American Airways
Transcontinental
Western Air
United Air Lines
Post Office Department
Stratton
Elliott Roosevelt
Fokker
Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel
Treasury
White House
Gordon Crary
Los Angeles
E. F. Hutton and Company
Washington
First Elliott
North June Street
New York
Basil O’connor
California
Photostat
Roosevelt Jr
Rochelle
New Rochelle
Herbert Reed
Herbert A. Reed
United States
Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington Dispatches
Black Committee
Anthony H. G. Fokker
Douglas Aircraft Corporation
United
United Committee
Farley
Army Air Corps
Waldorf- Astoria
Grand Central Station
Oxford 4000
Beverly Hills
Oxford
New York Times
Holland
Lockheed
Burbank
Douglas
Aviation
Jean D. Grenier
Edwin D. White Jr
James Y. Eastman
Durward Lowry
I. F. Patrick
George F. McDermott
Soviet Russia
Tichenor
al Smith
Smith
Outlook
Congressional
H. A. Reed
Mr. Stratton