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Chapter 5 Transportation, Page 86
A chicken shipment on rail cars at the Degnon Terminal in 1946 proves, once again, that just about
anything could be handled by the local transportation network. Timely delivery of fresh produce and
live poultry from farm to table was no problem. (Courtesy GAHS.)
This is the United States postal facility for military mail at 48th Street and Northern
Boulevard. At the site of Madison Square Garden Bowl, this facility moved millions of pieces of
overseas mail during World War II. It was one of the largest postal operations in the world. (Courtesy
Queens Chamber of Commerce.)
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