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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 22, 1958)
I Copyright 1958, Bureau of Advertising of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, Inc. MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Friday, August 22, 1958 ; vfigii twii mm . ji r,i pijff! nnnfrnff"! i ' " ,jiM,,.K.-..,.,.,,.v.: frj6.ttw m!,,,,,,,,.. .-. 1 p .W-rv'llWWI1lwH n n iti - .,.,., n ' ' i .. - . It takes a GIANT to set America in motion. This year millions of footloose travelers will buy tickets to romantic places. They'll pay several billion dollars to get where, there going by bus," plane, ship and train. The transportation industry employs hundreds of thousands of people. It spends billions for equipment. It performs a gigantic task in carrying its passengers safely, surely and swiftly to their destinations. Transportation space is possibly our most perishable prod uct. An accommodation that' has not been' sold by the time, a trip has begun is never sold. To help keep its product sold, transportation turns to another giant the daily newspaper, , the number one travel medium. , Last year the travel industry spent $58,266,000 in newspapers to attract the greatest number of ticket-buying travelers in history: More money is spent in newspapers by all kinds of advertisers because newspapers set people in motion buying. All business is local ... and so are all newspapers Published in the interest of more effective advertising by MEDFORD MIL .TRIBUNE 3A