Airline Quote by Anthony Stafford Beer

“The system of transportation is not coherent; it is not treated as integral. Roads compete with with railroads and airlines in chaotic fashion, and at immense cost to the nation.”

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There is, then, a logical priority about the arrangements, and logic has nothing to do with time.

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