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...carry its 50,000,000 bunches of bananas yearly from plantations to the sea, United Fruit Co. owns nearly 1,160 miles of railroad in Jamaica, Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras and Guatemala. In Guatemala, where the Fruit Co. has more than 3,000 men working on 16,000 acres of bananas, it owns 137 miles of track. The principal Guatemalan banana road, however, is International Railways of Central America, which operates some 800 miles of track from the Pacific to the Caribbean with a branch down through Salvador on the West coast. Last week a deal was in progress...
...system, Mrs. James Stewart Cushman, vice president of the World Y. W. C. A., put up Dr. Buchman. Other hostesses to the visiting Groupers included Mrs. Edward V. Hartford, sister-in-law of the Great Atlantic & Pacific grocers; Mrs. Sheldon Whitehouse, wife of the onetime U. S. Minister to Guatemala and Colombia; Countess Laszlo Szechenyi, who was Gladys Vanderbilt...
Scuttle, Scuttle, Scuttle, Up and up went Ethiopia's jig as a total of three central American countries resigned in disgust from the League (Guatemala, Honduras,Nicaragua) and Poland crashed through last week with a decree from Warsaw ending Polish Sanctions against Italy. Argentina seemed to be about the hardest nut for Britain to crack this week in the efforts of "Tony" Eden to crack all the Sanctions he was a leader in creating few months ago. Considering the British chiefly as customers for Argentine meat, supposing they meant all Mr. Eden had said against Italy, and being anxious...
...Central American countries except Mexico and El Salvador the road-building is largely due to U.S. paternalism and funds. Last November President Roosevelt gave $340,000 to Panama, Honduras and Guatemala for three bridges. U. S. donations to date: some $1,500,000. In Mexico and El Salvador, however, the roads have been almost entirely national work. This week's dedication is of the first section so completed in Mexico, the 770 miles from Nuevo Laredo to Mexico...
Beyond the Mexican capital, the Inter-American Highway is paved for 165 miles to Tehuacan, after which it gradually degenerates from gravel to dirt to cow tracks. At Chiapas, 185 miles from Guatemala, it halts completely in a maze of mountains. From the Guatemala border to Guatemala City there are 310 miles of road, of which 192 are impassable in wet weather. From Guatemala City there is a fine gravel road for some 200 miles to San Salvador. Beyond lie 87 miles of dry-weather road, which trickles into nothing but a track with occasional good patches as it cuts...