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Show u. s. fir: seh OPESSlilD YEAR 1,313,379 MILES COVERED; AND NINETEEN FATALITIES; COST OF OPERATION $1,342,302 Air Mall Service Now In Third Year, With ranee Going From Coast to Coact And Service Good Washington Tho air mall service Is now three enrs old. In a statement the postofflce department said that during the last year it had covered l,Ui;i,'l7l) miles with mail and carried l,0ir,0,".'l pounds nt a cost, with April estimated, of $1,:I2,.T.M. The nverage cost per mile, It was added, was $1.02 There were nineteen fatalities, almost al-most twice as maney as for the first two years. "This, to a certain extent was due." the statement said, "to the greater hazard of operating the transcontinental trans-continental route. Seven of tliQ fatalities, "It was added add-ed were duo to defective mechanism of a certain type of plane, which has been discarded;' six of tho fatnlltles occttred while not carrying mall." "Until the past year." the statement state-ment said, "the service had a general nverage performance of 78 per cent of trips completed, and 811 per cent of miles completed." The routes now In operntlnon nre the tnuiseontlnetal from New York to Enn Francisco, a route from Chicago to Minneapolis, another from Chicago to St. Louis and one from Washington to New York. |