Word: training
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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 will be ended with a compliment regarding the splendid way TIME is handling aviation news generally...
...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...
...last week Campbell Bascom Slemp, Virginia Republican, onetime Coolidge Secretary, strolled into the White House, conferred with President Hoover, strolled out again. Smiling wisely at expectant newsgatherers, he drove off to the Union Station, took a train for Richmond. That night a strange political alliance was born, a culmination of Virginia's "new era of humanity" (TIME, July...
Universal. Train (Santa Fe) between Los Angeles and Garden City, Kan., plane between Garden City and Cleveland, train (New York Central) between Cleveland and Manhattan. Time, 60 hours; fare $250. Service began in mid-June...
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...