Statement showing mail mileage and pay, rate per mile flown, pounds carried and passengers carried-Continued

Statement showing mail mileage and pay, rate per mile flown, pounds carried and passengers carried-Continued

Statement showing mail mileage and pay, rate per mile flown, pounds carried and passengers carried-Continued

Passengers carried in the air mail service on air mail planes

1 Fiscal year totals. Record of passengers carried by months prior to January 1931 not available. Comparison of the average rates paid per mile for transportation of mail by aircraft, as taken from the Department's statistical reports

Senator AUSTIN. I offer the table on page 275 and the table on page 279 found in the hearings before the House Subcommittee on

Appropriations for the Post Office Department, with reference to the appropriation bill for 1938.

(The tables referred to and submitted by Senator Austin are here reproduced as follows:)

EXHIBIT No. 1

Air Mail Service-Total revenues of air-mail contractors, miles flown in mail service, and poundage of air mail transported during the fiscal years 1931-36

formed

$0.311 15,377, 993

2, 986, 269, 797 6, 275, 935, 094 4, 834, 540, 535 4, 513, 880, 526 6, 790, 486, 632 9,771, 841, 815

$0.540 6,741, 788

$0.417

6, 476, 919

$0.283 10,775, 248