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Show AIR TRANSPORTATION GROWING The airplane is the first mode of transportation to recognize no physical phy-sical or geographical barrier to its ultimate use. The foundation of aviation has been laid through years of hazardous hazard-ous experimenting. Some $500,000,000 has gone into its various branches during the last two years. It is probably necessary to look forward only a few years to see airplane post offices, with the mail being picked up, sorted and discharged dis-charged in much the same fashion as is now done by railroads; transcontinental trans-continental services in aircraft provided pro-vided with comfortable sleeping accommodations; ac-commodations; radio-telephone communication com-munication for passengers as well as crew, and a service so comprehensive compre-hensive that practically every important im-portant industrial center in the United States will be identified with the newest agency of freight and passenger transportation. On the Pacific coast, the Pacific Air Transport carries mail and passengers pas-sengers north and south from Seattle Se-attle to Los Angeles, a distance of 1100 miles, the second longest air mail line in the country. During May this company flew every mile on time and new schedules recently inaugurated shorten the trip north by one hour and 45 minutes and the trip south by one hour and 15 minutes. min-utes. Southbound planes arrive in Los Angeles in time to make night train connections for Phoenix, El Paso, San Antonio, Dallas and southwest south-west points, effecting a saving of from 12 to 14 hours. Fares have also been reduced on an average of 35 per cent. Travel by air is no longer considered con-sidered a gamble with death. As we become better educated to its advantages, schedules will be improved im-proved and rates will continue to go down. |