Postcard from Lyndon Johnson to Lady Bird Taylor
This is a postcard that Lyndon B. Johnson apparently forwarded to Lady Bird Taylor that he received from Gene Boehringer. Gene writes about the "Zephyr" train she is riding to Dallas, on its inaugural run, and wishes Johnson could be in Dallas with Taylor and all their friends.
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OCR Page 1 of 3On May 26, 1934, the ZEPHYR broke all
Burlington
long-distance, non-stop World's Records
for railroad trains when it ran 1015 miles
Route
from Denver, Colo. to Chicago in 785
minutes to signalize the reopening of
Century of Progress Exposition.
The
ZEPHYR left Denver 5:04 AM Mountain Time and
93
reached Halsted Street, Chicago 7:09 PM Central Time
13 hr. 5 min. Its average speed on the spectacular
EXA
dawn-to-dusk flight was 77.6 miles an hour
its
top speed 112.5 miles an hour.
Signion B. former
1322hbure offire Big
Washington,
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