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Show 'NEW DEAL' IN TRANSPORTATION BRINGS AIR SPEEDS TO EARTH . a - 3 . v v rc 'v-,i. Al . X! 'S t ' WHILE the Blue Eagle of the NRA Is busy these days forwarding a new industrial era, science, calling for new deal" in transportation to meet the accelerated pace, is bringing air speeds down to earth. Hide bound conservatives may stick to their conviction that air travel has its hazards, but with engineers now adapting the streamline principle ot airplane design to boats, railroad trains and motoi cars, Twentieth Cen-tury Cen-tury Americans soon will be seeing the country at a speed ot nearly two miles a minute wnether trom transcontinental air liner or the cushions of modern earth-bound speedsters. Ordinary citizens, statesmen, baby chicks, grocery orders and spare parts will go whisking along the surface ot the earth witn almost tnt speed, of the night air mail. Above, left, a new tear-drop, three-wheeled automobile capable ot a speed ot 120 mile-an mile-an hour. Right, a new air transport, hailed as the latest achievement of streamlining in an planes, on its initial flight. It is used on one of the transcontinental air lines. Lower right, modern streamlined train now under construction con-struction at Philadelphia for a transcontinental railroad. It is expected to travel at a speed ot 120 mi'.es per hour. Lower left, blocks ot wood used in actual wind tunnel tests, illustrating how streamimir.g lessic, air ' resistance greatly Increasing speed, through elimination of back drafts and unnecessary air turbulence. |