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power and the other necessities or urban life.

We must force ourselves to realize that acceleration of progress has itself accelerated. Ten years today accomplishes far more that 100 years yesterday, and even the wildest forecasts all too after fall far short of the anticipated goal. Surely, you say, it cannot be true-although it is- that in 1910 an editorial in the Scientific American state equivocally that "to affirm that the airplane is going to revolutionize the future is to be guilty of the wildest exaggeration." The chances are that many of our senior and wise citizens of that time solemnly nodded their heads in agreement.

Such attitude of acceptance of the past can be tolerated no longer in these rapidly changing times. We are surrounded with great advances in techniques and applications of vibrant and progressive industries. Of these, perhaps the mammoth transportation industry provided the best example of both progress and debilitation On one hand, the air transport segment is in the forefront of aggressive development and growth. It continually moves ahead, introducing still more modern equipment on top of already modern equipment. The jet aircraft alone had made the most significant contribution of any method of transportation yet evolved. It has reduced the size of the world: it has enabled peoples of all nations to become acquainted with other people throughout the globe; it has enabled broader exchanges of ideas and understanding.

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