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Show competition lower rates, better service. Trains will be faster. Accommodations, Ac-commodations, especially in the coaches, will be improved. The direct result will be a demand de-mand on industry for newer, better bet-ter planes, locomotives, passenger cars, motor buses, and passenger ships as land, sea and air transportation trans-portation wage their battle for lucrative postwar traffic. The other direct result, in the opinion of experts, will be a tremendous tre-mendous stimulus to travel, as the reduction in passenger rates makes extended trips available to a larger section of the public. Equally important, all of this means a tremendous increase in passenger travel for certainly, as airline, train, and steamer rates are brought within the means of more people, more people will take advantage of them. 4 JameS Preston One reason official Washington is so engrossed in postwar aviation avia-tion plans is the belief here that air travel will be the sparkplug in a transportation boom that will be felt throughout all industry, and i which to the general public will spell better jobs and better service. Some of the top men in the aircraft air-craft industry have told government govern-ment postwar planners that the increased efficiency of planes, resulting re-sulting from the war, indicates the possibility of halving passenger passen-ger rates, and cutting freight rates to as low as one-fourth of the prewar pre-war levels. Far-sighted railroad men, however, how-ever, have no intention of lying down and permitting the airlines to take away the bulk of the passenger pas-senger business. Their answer will be the traditional answer of American Amer-ican industry to new and spirited |