Identifier: belltelephonemag19amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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showed ten air mails a day from thatcity to various points in California;five to points in Oregon; five to pointsin the State of Washington. Typicalof the time made by these coast-to-coast planes is that of one for whichthe mail closes at New York at 6 A.M.and reaches San Francisco at 2:40 A.M. the next day. Service fromwest to east is on approximately thesame schedule as from east to west. JAATES for air mail postage over thetranscontinental routes have gonethrough a period of transition. Whenthe air service was first established,between New York and Washington,in 1918, the rate was twenty-fourcents an ounce; this was later reducedto sixteen cents; then to six cents; andon July 18, 1919, the extra charge wasremoved altogether, air mail beingcarried at the regular domestic rate.In August, 1923, a zone rate was es-tablished with a charge of eight centsbetween New York and Chicago, alike amount between Chicago andCheyenne, and another eight cents be- 302 Bell Telephone Quarterly OCTOBER
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A CURTISS JENNY Open cockpit airplanes such as this carried the mail two decades ago, during the Post OfficeDepartmenVs establishment and operation of air mail routes tween Cheyenne and San Francisco.On February 1, 1927, a new rate often cents per one-half ounce, regard-less of distances, was put into effect,thereby doing away with the compli-cated zoning system then used ontranscontinental and other contractroutes. The present rate for eachounce or fraction thereof is six centsto any part of continental UnitedStates and Alaska. The rates to out-lying islands and possessions vary be-tween ten and fifty cents per one-halfounce or fraction thereof. Air Passenger Service Ihe development of air mail servicegave marked impetus to the growth ofpassenger service as well, since theAct of Congress of February, 1925,empowering the Postmaster Generalto make contracts with private com-panies Ibr carrying the mails, had theeffect of granting subsidies for the de-velopment of both mail and transpor

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