From "Vienna flies an airline; over the Danube Valley, checkered with green and yellow fields, past the drowsing towers of weedy castles, the Kreuzensteina fagot of aged stone pillars, fortressed quadrangles, powder turrets on into Czecho-Slovakia, energetic Republic blazing" with red roofs, factory chimneys, to the place where Prague with its thousand monuments dreams in a fortressed valley. The cost of this trip by plane is $4the equivalent of a third-class fare by rail; it occupies 1 hour and 40 minutes; the train takes 8 hours, including an hour at the frontier....
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