Word: rail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: I am forced to rise in protest because or a statement in TIME (June 24), Page 46 " . . [Mrs. Willebrandt] was a passenger on the first transcontinental rail-air-rail service. . . . Universal. . . ." Our company, the S. A. F. E. Airlines, began transcontinental air-rail service the same day Universal Air Lines began their cross-U. S. operations. Passengers leaving New York on June 14 by train and Los Angeles by plane, boarded our ships the morning of June 15 at St. Louis and Sweetwater, Tex., respectively, and completed their transcontinental journeys the following day. . . . This ends the protest. The letter...
These systems go through the Southwest where year-round transportation can be maintained easily. Elsewhere in the country the hurried traveler can splice his own air-&-rail way by hopping from iron horses to "tin geese" (see TIME...
...Last week Secretary Newton sped by air and rail from Washington to Minneapolis where his six-year-old son had been run over by a street car while riding a bicycle, had had a leg amputated...
Capt. A. T. Morris of the American steamer Maracaibo, leaned over the ship's rail smoking an evening pipe, gazing at the placid harbor of Willemstad, Curaçao. A thin sliver of moon hung over the tanks of the Royal Dutch oil refinery on shore, shone on the yellow plaster façade of the Governor's Palace...
...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 men can ship entirely by rail, can save from seven to 15 days in transportation to U. S. and European markets...