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Show II & AIR SERVICE OPENS 110 YEAR 1.313,379 MILES COVERED: AND NINETEEN FATALITIES; COST OF OPERATION $1,342,382 Air Mall Service Now In Third Year, With Planes Golna From Coast to Coast And 8ervlce Good Washlnglon-The air mail service is now three years old. in a statement the postofflee department said that i5.?-nthe..,I,8t yunr U llml C0Vtircd '3ill ",1Ips w,,h mn" '""I carried 2,015,0oS pounds nt a cost, with April estimated, or $1,342,828. ne average cost per mile, It was ndded, was $102 There were nineteen fatnlltles. almost al-most twice as maney as for tho first two years. "This, to a certain evient Was due." the statement said, "io the greater hazard of operating the trims-continental trims-continental rouie. Seven of the fatalities, "it was added add-ed were duo to defecthe mechanism of a certain (ypo of plane, which has been discarded; six or thn fatalities occured while not earrylng mall." "lTntll the past year." the clat-ment clat-ment salt, "the service had a general average performance of 78 per cent of trips completed, and 8:1 per cent of miles completed." The routes now In operatlnon are the transcoiitinetal from New York to San Francisco, a route from Chicago to Minneapolis, another from Chicago to St. Louis and one from Washington to New i'ork. |