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York and London, New York and Brazil, New York and 

 Buenos Aires, and other points of the globe. Clearly a new 

 low-priced air-transportation era will be ushered in with the 

 end of the war. 



Where we once faced the wilderness of our West with 

 horses and covered wagons, intent upon building a new civili- 

 zation, we now face our ocean boundaries and look upon 

 continents only hours away that need our skills, production 

 techniques, and research procedures for the building of a 

 sounder, better civilization. Unless we find ways of raising 

 the standard of living for the populations of other countries, 

 we cannot hope to maintain our own standards for long. This 

 immense undertaking lies not in the distant future but in the 

 very near future. The commuter air service between conti- 

 nents is one means of making this feasible. Our businessmen, 

 craftsmen, and technicians will be able to travel to and from 

 South America, Africa, Australia, and the Far East in a mat- 

 ter of hours, not weeks or months. Where opportunities for 

 establishing new businesses in foreign lands existed in the past 

 only for large corporations, low-cost air service will make it 

 possible for the enterprising individual to launch new services 

 and agencies in other countries too. 



The world we knew yesterday has already slipped around 

 the corner and a new one beckons. Our frontiers, in the old 

 geographical sense, have vanished. We face a new world in 

 which the reward for individual ingenuity, wit, and initiative 

 will be higher than it has ever been before. It will be a world 

 that will call for daring and imagination. We will be con- 

 fronted by problems with which we have had little or no 

 previous experience, and by opportunities so new and strange 

 that they will challenge every ounce of resourcefulness we 

 can muster. A certain readiness to accept new ideas and to 

 adjust to new situations will be demanded of all of us. 



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