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Word: oxcarts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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...migration across the continent to the western ocean were three: 1) the Oregon trail to the Northwest; 2) the pioneer route west to the Missouri River and over the Rockies to Great Salt Lake; 3) from Leavenworth southwest by the Santa Fe trail to the southern Sierra. Where the oxcart went, Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown has decreed, there shall the commercial airplane first go-until men learn to travel through the air as safely and economically as they can move on earth. Result: migratory lines Nos. 2 & 3, plus a third "natural channel" across the flat south and lower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: The Big Trails | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

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