Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 February 1943 — Page 11

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“ 10 Hours to England! 12 Hours to South America! 40 Hours to Africa!

That’s the way the U. S. Army Air Transport Command thinks today when it figures a logistical problem . . .in terms of the 4th dimension—

time itself! And what a difference that is from the type of thinking which

prevailed during the last war!

You and I can recall that the World War Chief of Staff of the American

Army never had an opportunity to reach France . . . it would have taken more than a week by boat!

You and I still have fresh in our minds how quickly the Chief of Staff of the present American Army reached Africa by air . . . it was hours!

Comparing the war of 1917 with that of 1943, we find that while the

latter conflict is global in scope, the fighting fronts are not nearly as

remote from home . . . that is by air! After all, it’s a smaller world today » « « Shrunk to approximately one-fifth its former size!

For the modern transport plane has telescoped distance and junked the geography that you and I learned in school. Over the airways, it’s not a matter of how far but how short a time it will take to get from one place to another . . . regardless of statute or nautical mileage! :

To the bringing about of this revolutionary change in thinking, we of * Eastern Air Lines can justly claim a significant contribution — not only

% .

“on the basis of our current war activities with the Air Transport Com-

mand but also from the pioneering all of us did years back to popularize the idea that time was the most accurate measurement of the shortest distance between two points . . . 80 Minutes—New York to Washington . .. 81, Hours—New York to Miami . . . 914 Hours—Miami to Chicago!

And through hoth international air gateways to Latin America —

18Y, Hours—New York to Mexico City . . . 15 Hours—New York to

Balboa, Panama!

When the war is over, who can predict just what the future schedules of The Great Silver Fleet will be? Can we? Surely! ... service will become

faster, schedules more convenient and flying more economical! ; nt

Let’s look forward to that day and credit our wartime aviation for so rich a promise. And let’s speed the fulfillment of it by working harder and

‘buying more War Bonds to achieve Victory! Then we will be able to enjoy

a really new world—a world measured by minutes instead of by miles!

President and General Managi, EASTERN Fir Lined

Dimension" becomes the new measure of distance!

* Physical space is sometimes regarded, as

in the theory of relativity, as consisting of the three ordinary spatial dimensions plus a fourth dimension, which is Time itself.

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