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VINCENT J. WHITE Pato Consolidated Gold Dredging, Ltd. Pato, Colombia...
...Inter-American Highway goes back to 1924. By last week many sections had been built: some 8,000 miles of it were all-weather roads; 2,150 were usable in dry weather; 1,200 were still bullock-cart trails. Only one section was hopelessly blank: between Panama City and Colombia stretched 186 miles of impassable jungle and swampland, with head-hunting Indians lurking behind each tree. Belief was that the highway would have to break off at Panama; that cars would have to be ferried over 1,000 miles around the coast to La Guaira, Venezuela...
...This will introduce Richard Tewkesbury, a reckless stubborn young American who is ambitious to make the trip overland from the Canal to Colombia. I urge you to dissuade him from this mad adventure. If, however, he will not be discouraged, will you please give him such assistance as you reasonably...
Many wild orchids from Colombia for the Air Express edition of TIME ! I have been gathering crude rubber in the Amazon, eating beefsteaks in the Argentine, climbing the Andes, and picking coffee in Colombia during the past four months-writing a get-acquainted series of articles for our Midwestern farmers on how our Latin American neighbors live, what they grow, and how they grow it. That has brought me up to date south of the border, but behind the times back home. That is, until I got the Air Express edition of TIME which enabled me to sit down...
JOHN STROHM Correspondent for The Prairie Farmerv Cali, Colombia...