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...five years after the formation of United Fruit) Mr. Keith acquired from the Guatemalan government a 130-mile railroad which ran from Puerto Barrios (Guatemalan Atlantic port) inland. It was a very unprofitable road, since its other extremity was but Guatemala City, its only logical western terminus. But Mr. Keith pointed out to United Fruit that it could well and profitably grow bananas in eastern Guatemala, thus providing the railroad with freight. Then the road was pushed on to Guatemala City. In 1912 the railroad company changed its name from Guatemala Railway Co. to its present title of International Railways...
...night-flying transcontinental airmail got under way last week. On the new schedule, letters posted on either coast one evening are delivered at the opposite coast two mornings (about 32 hours) later. This has been made feasible by floodlighting the route's western terminus, Oakland Municipal Airport. Until the Rockies were flown at night, the shortest airmail trip across the continent was performed in one day, one night, one day. Now it is done in one night, one day, one night-saving one business...
...used to run its trains under the Hudson River through the Pennsylvania's tunnels into Pennsylvania Station, Manhattan. For almost two years the B. & O. has been motoring its passengers by bus between Manhattan and Jersey City (its own terminus). The B. & O. bus terminal in Manhattan is opposite Grand Central Terminal. *Besides harvesting machinery, International Harvester also makes motor trucks, motor coaches, gasoline and oil engines, wagons, farm implements and binder twine...
Natural Art and Fine Art met, last week, in sunny congress on a California hilltop at the western terminus of the Lincoln Highway, overlooking the burnished haze of San Francisco. There stands California's memorial to her War dead, the Palace of the Legion of Honor, an edifice filled with many treasures, including the life of Joan of Arc in Gobelin tapestries, gift of France...
Last week while all Budapest blew on its fingers and shivered in the cold, Vassili Martinow went to the movies. He was old and poor, and could only afford the cheapest seat, but even in the cheapest seat the Terminus Theatre was warm...