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Herbert Hoover: “The purpose of it was to enable the Postmaster General to contract in such a fashion as to encourage passenger traffic…”

On the recordMay 1, 1930
The purpose of it was to enable the Postmaster General to contract in such a fashion as to encourage passenger traffic and to bridge over from solely a postal aviation to passenger-carrying airplanes.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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