Word: stagecoach
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Here is a soothing bit of perspective to consider the next time you are belted in on the runway and the captain announces, "We are 14th in line for takeoff." Before 1869, it could have taken the better part of a month for a stagecoach to make its way across the plains and over the mountains of North America. After 1869, the time was cut to about one smoky, jolting week on the newly completed link known as the transcontinental railroad...
DIED. CLAIRE TREVOR, 91, actress who specialized in playing tough-talking floozies with hearts of gold and won a supporting-actress Oscar for just such a role in Key Largo (1948); in Newport Beach, Calif. One of her most memorable parts came opposite John Wayne in the classic Stagecoach...