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E’RE rather proud of our airline," a public relations man of ‘Trans Canada Airlines told Guy Young before he set out on the 3000-mile flight from Vancouver to Montreal. "It runs every day, it runs on time, and it doesn’t kill people." Guy Young tells the story of the flight and of the return journey by rail in Three Thousand Miles and Back. Flying at night-* you aren’t moving, of course; you ’re a lighted fish bowl hung in thundering darkness’--Mr. Young went first to Calgary, a town proud of, its wild western traditions, then on to Winnipeg, "not a place where I'd care to live,". Toronto and Montreal — good places, it seems, which are busy ignoring each other. The rail trip back to Vancouver took four nights and three days, and "in spite of the legend of the bare prairie my strongest impression of the whole journey was trees," one small tree with a pink ribbon and a yellow label and the rest with their own decoration, filling the autumn country with "yellow flutterings, strong stabs of green and hillsides by the square mile preened in scar-
GUY YOUNG let." Three Thousand Miles and Back will be heard from 2YC at 10.0 p.m. on Wednesday, May 7,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 669, 2 May 1952, Page 7
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209TRANS-CONTINENTAL New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 669, 2 May 1952, Page 7
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