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...Essai Surréaliste by famed Salvador Dali, showing a vast dark cypress tree rising against an evening sky from which grows a half-opened book transfixed by a peg on which droops one of Artist Dali's limp watches...
...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 by which United Fruit would strengthen its already strong hold upon International Railways...
...swank London audience assembled to hear Salvador Dali, Spanish surrealist painter, lecture on art. was amazed when he stumped down the aisle to the dais in a deep-sea diving suit. Beginning his talk through a microphone inside the helmet, Painter Dali, whose eccentric canvases created a furor in Manhattan nearly two years ago (TIME, Nov. 26, 1934), presently was overcome by heat, forced to remove his helmet. Keeping the rest of the costume on until his speech was over, he explained to newshawks: "I just wanted to show that I was plunging down deeply into the human mind...
...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...
...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 across a corner of Honduras into Nicaragua. In that country the 214 miles of Inter-American Highway are universally bad. Costa Rica is next, with 356 miles, mostly...