THE CABINET: $1.24 v. $1.23 v. $0.35

Elementary arithmetic last week engaged the attention of U. S. citizens interested in the question of what commercial aviation company shall be Uncle Sam's mailman on the New York-Chicago leg of the transcontinental air mail route. "Why," asked figurers, "did Postmaster General New award the New York-Chicago contract to the National Air Transport Co.'s bid of $1.24 a pound when the North American Airways Co. bid $1.23 a pound, and when Capt. Earle F. Stewart of Manhattan bid 35ยข a pound?" Computers added also that U. S....

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