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From "Vienna flies an airline; over the Danube Valley, checkered with green and yellow fields, past the drowsing towers of weedy castles, the Kreuzenstein-a fagot of aged stone pillars, fortressed quadrangles, powder turrets -on into Czecho-Slovakia, energetic Republic blazing" with red roofs, factory chimneys, to the place where Prague with its thousand monuments dreams in a fortressed valley. The cost of this trip by plane is $4-the equivalent of a third-class fare by rail; it occupies 1 hour and 40 minutes; the train takes 8 hours, including an hour at the frontier. No wonder that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Blimp Base | 8/10/1925 | See Source »

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