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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From New Orleans, heading for St. Louis 1,200 miles upstream, "out to beat the record of the Robert E. Lee," sleek express cruiser Martha Jane and a smaller mahogany runabout called Bogie started up the tortuous Mississippi. The Robert E. Lee's record, made in 1870 when she beat the Natchez and many a shiny dollar changed hands...
...five major con tenders is likely to gain monopoly in any one region) great profits are in store. There is mail to be carried and the governments as a matter of public policy pay handsomely.* Although none of the lines expect to carry much bulky express for years to come, there are precious diamonds, emeralds, sapphires, egret feathers and in districts where businessmen distrust checks, cash to be carried...
Southwest Air Fast Express Tulsa, Okla...
...TIME, June 24, for blind baggage. I have always understood the blind baggage to be the narrow forward platform of the foremost baggage or mail car, immediately behind the tender. This is one of the three points at which hobos may attempt a free ride on a passenger or express train, the other two being the roof of a car and the rods...
Standard-Southern Air Fast Express. Plane between Los Angeles and El Paso, train (Texas & Pacific) between El Paso and Sweetwater, Texas; plane between Sweetwater and St. Louis; train (New York Central, Pennsylvania or Baltimore & Ohio) from St. Louis to Atlantic Coast ports. Time, 58 hours; fare, $215. This service made its first run the same day as the Santa Fe-Universal-N. Y. C. Last week it began regular trips...