Description
Full color 9 1/2″ x 13″ ad that discusses how much less time it takes for items and people to be transported through the air. There is a picture of an American Airlines crew standing in front of their plane that is parked on the snow and ice covered Artic. The headline calls attention to trips that took “Yesterday 6 weeks – Today 45 minutes”. The text discusses a journey in New Guinea that previously had to be undertaken by horseback but is now able to be quickly handled in the air. It then question who is responsible for this tremendous improvement and gives some credit to the “General, Admirals, Airlines and Aircraft manufacturers” but it feels that most of the credit should go to the “air transport crews in the air and on the ground”. The text continues by mentioning other ways that aviation has been improved by force-fed developments brought around by the needs of war.
Source: 1944 Life magazine.
