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July 1924
The following events occurred in July 1924: July 1, 1924 (Tuesday) *United States airmail service#Transcontinental air mail, Full time airmail service began in the U.S. with a fleet of airplanes transporting the mail day and night. The time for sending mail between New York and San Francisco was decreased from 70 hours to a little less than 35 hours westward and around 32 hours eastward. Stops by the airplanes for mail transfer and relief of crew were made at established air stations along the fully-equipped Transcontinental Airway System at New York City; Bellefonte, Pennsylvania; Cleveland and Bryan, Ohio; Chicago; Iowa City; Omaha and North Platte, Nebraska; Cheyenne, Wyoming, Cheyenne, Rawlins, Wyoming, Rawlins and Rock Springs, Wyoming; Salt Lake City; Elko, Nevada, Elko and Reno, Nevada, Reno; and San Francisco. *Japan held a national day of protest of the United States' 1924 Immigration Act, Immigration Act the day it went into effect. Mass prayer meetings were conduc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transcontinental Air Mail Map 1924
Transcontinental may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media * "Transcontinental", a song by the band Pedro the Lion from the album ''Achilles Heel'' * TC Transcontinental, a publishing, media and marketing company based in Canada, a subsidiary of Transcontinental Inc * ''The Transcontinental'', a South Australian weekly newspaper published in Port Augusta Transport * First transcontinental railroad, United States, 1869 * Ford Transcontinental, a truck manufactured by Ford of Britain * National Transcontinental Railway, an historic Canadian railway company * Transcontinental airspeed record * ''Transcontinental Express'', a train that arrived in San Francisco in 1876 83 hours and 39 minutes after having left New York City * Transcontinental flight, a flight across a continent, such as from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific across the U.S. * Transcontinental railroad, a railway that crosses a continent, typically from coast to coast *Transcontinental walk, crossing a continent on f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
