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...between the coast and the mountains emphasizes the need for communications that would move labor to the coast and step up interregional trade. In 1953 he started a four-year. $50 million program to add new road and rail links to the main existing connection, the old Guayaquil & Quito Railway. Now 1,100 miles of new routes are reaching out to tie Ecuador together...
...world's biggest privately owned railroad moved a hard-driving engineer into the front cab last week. Norris Roy ("Buck") Crump, 50, a veteran railroader who began his career as a 16-year-old track laborer, was elected president of the Canadian Pacific Railway Co., the $2 billion transportation empire, largely owned by U.S. and British investors, that is Canada's richest corporation...
...Indo-China. But of all the mechanisms, the most carefully calibrated is the squeezer known as the Berlin Blockade. It is so sensitive that it can register cold-war pressure by the raising or lowering of a road barrier, or by a sudden slowdown in the Berlin elevated railway...
...Wheel. In Franklin, Vt., Alfred Bean, 50, left a testimonial luncheon honoring him for getting a National Safety Council Award for 20 years of perfect driving with the Railway Express, walked across the street to the courthouse, where he was found guilty of charges of driving his own car while drunk 20 days before...
...Guatemala has the most frustrating gap. Mexico's fine paved stretch of the highway reaches the border at a different point from where Guatemala's road net touches the Mexican border. At present a 164-mile, $35 railway-flatcar haul bridges the gap. With $1,425,000 granted last October by the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads, construction is getting started to connect the loose ends. But Nixon, who wants to help anti-Communist President Carlos Castillo Armas with public works, backs a speedup (with $20 million to $30 million in U.S. aid) that will quickly close...