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(2) We require an expansion of air transportation which must be broadened until it actually, rather than theoretically, serves the transportation needs of all of our people. The United States Post Office Department has done a fundamentally great job in fostering air transportation, and that job is deeply appreciated by every thinking man. I am sure that the Post Office Department will continue to co-operate in widening the scope so that we may collect, not only mail, but passengers from a thousand sizeable towns and cities that we do not now touch. I firmly believe that the Post Office, twenty-five years from this date, will be on the airport. 
(3) An expansion of our weather reporting facilities is absolutely essential. The investment in such an expansion will probably make greater returns, not only to aviation, but to the farmer, the business man, and to the average citizen than any other investment possible through the channels of government. 
(4) Research is the spearhead of industrial and commercial progress, and there is no single invention developed by aeronautic research that does not adapt itself to countless other constructive forms. The status quo of aviation can never be measure except in the laboratory. The scientists sit at the throttle and are the true prophets of our progress. Our research facilities should have no ceiling, either economically or legislatively. Out of their activity will come the safety, the utility, and the adaptability of tomorrow's equipment.
(5) It is taken for granted that the recommendations of the leaders of our national defense Services will never willingly allow us to hold the second best poker hand. They, however,