08/09/1927
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"I bid you welcome."
"There is a wide difference between the romance of flying and aeronautics as a science."
"Air transport means much to the United States, divided as it is in the West by lofty mountain ranges and deserts."
"All nations are looking forward to the day of extensive, regular, and reasonably safe intercontinental and interoceanic transportation by airplane and airship."