Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Passengers will board a train at the Pennsylvania Railroad station in Manhattan at 6:05 p. m. Having dined and played and slept and breakfasted, they will step off the train next morning at 8:30 in Columbus, Ohio, where they will be whisked to an airport. Trimotored planes of 14-passenger capacity will be waiting to receive them. Each plane will have two pilots, a steward, light refreshments, room for hand baggage, a luxuriously furnished cabin with ample observation windows. Flying on a schedule calling for 90 m. p. h., occasionally sprinting at 120 m. p. h., the planes...
Cost. The total fare between Manhattan and Los Angeles will be some $375, as compared with the present railroad fare (including cost of drawing room...
Organizer. Dominant in the formation of T. A. T., Inc., were General William Wallace Atterbury, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad and Clement Melville Keys, president of Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co., Inc. General Atterbury had noted that most railroads had failed to cooperate effectively with motorbus lines and he did not want the same thing to happen with airlines. For four years, he planned T. A. T., Inc., with Mr. Keys and executives of the Santa Fe Railroad, Wright Aeronautical Corp., National Air Transport, Inc. (carriers of U. S. mail), and others. "The time is ripe . . .," said General Atterbury last week...
Julian L. Eysmans and Daniel M. Scheaffer, representing the Pennsylvania Railroad...
Again, Oris Paxton Van Sweringen, 49 and Mantis James Van Sweringen, 47, Cleveland brothers, are frustrated in their plans for a fourth eastern railroad system. The Interstate Commerce Commission again last week rejected their revised plan for joining the Great Lakes to Atlantic ports...