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Show u PRIVATE CONTROL After having as one exchange puts it, "nurtured the infant air mail service to its present stage of proved success," the government has turned over its lines to private operators. 7 he National Air Transport Corporation recently took over the crack New York-Chicago run, the last link of the 7 ranscontiner.tal line1 remaining under government control. This means from' no'w on that the commercial air service, will be developed by private corporations and by individual indi-vidual enterprise. The government will of course continue to assist the air service in every way possible, by lighting the airways for night flying and in many other ways including indirect subsidies. As Postmaster General New put ilt-: The real purpose of the businfjf has been to demonstrate to private capital that the service was not only possible scicnl if ically but that it could be made profitable cc mmercially and thereby encourage en-courage the creation of a new induslry it i the United States. I oday there are more companies making airplanes in the United Slates than there arc manufacturing automobiles. I here are fifteen privately owned lines flying the jii r mail, and then- ae several olhers for which contracts arc let and w hit h shortly will be placed in operation. Among these is one froi n New York to Atlanta." I lie go verrirrient has put the air sen i' e on a subslanlial basis and then windy turned it over to private capital for development. 4 |