Word: coast-to-coast
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...Freighters could not compete with freight trains as long as freighters had to wallow around the Horn. But the opening of the Panama Canal furnished a short water route from U. S. coast-to-coast. Fast new freighters go from San Diego to New York in 13 days; freight cars take about 14 days from seaboard to seaboard. In 1928, 9,868,000 tons of coast-to-coast freight went through the Canal...
Western Air Express (Western Air, in connection with New York Central, Santa Fe and Chicago & Alton railroads has announced a 46-hour coast-to-coast air-rail service. It carried 13,102,715 pieces of mail and 7,880 passengers during the first six months of 1929. Chief mail route is Los Angeles to Salt Lake City [664 miles]. Chief passenger route is Los Angeles to Kansas City. Passengers ride in 12-passenger Fokkers. Net income, first quarter $ 320,000 Net income, entire year...
Soon, however, there will occur an industrial event which should add to Guatemalan and Salvadorean prosperity. This event will be the completion and opening early next month of an 80-mile stretch of railroad which will link the coast-to-coast Guatemalan railroad with the coast-to-the-interior Salvador railroad. With the completion of this connecting link, the coffee planters of San Salvador will be given a direct rail line to the Atlantic. Instead of shipping coffee to the Pacific, then down to the Panama Canal, then through the canal to the Atlantic, coffee...
...railroad with freight. Then the road was pushed on to Guatemala City. In 1912 the railroad company changed its name from Guatemala Railway Co. to its present title of International Railways of Central America, acquired a road running from Guatemala City to the Pacific, thus gave Guatemala, a coast-to-coast railway...
...chief obstacles he saw to the perfection of all-air transportation for passengers from coast-to-coast: 1) The fog hazard, which he expects to see solved by radio; 2) The problem of safe night flying with passengers. Said he of the latter: "I don't think we are ready for such a thing at present. It shouldn't be carried out until we have in this country a reliable four-engined job. The details of such a plane, I believe, we should leave to the aeronautical engineers. I have no definite ideas...