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"An impossible dream of fabulous luxury Industrial designer Norman Bel Geddes loved challenges; the tougher they were, the more they appealed to him. In 1929 he exhorted his staff to find a way of getting "a thousand luxury lovers from New York to Paris fast." The result--on paper--was a 700-ton airliner with a 577-foot wingspan, a crew of 155 and accomadations for 451 passengers. Bel Geddes believed his 90-mile-an-hour behemoth could compete with the ocean liners of the day since it could make three Atlantic crossings a week to their one. But the plane's nine-million dollar price tag discouraged investors, and it died on the drawing board."

exact qoute from Time Life's book series "The Epic of Flight" book "Designers and Test Pilots" pg 48-49 bottom box