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...Besides election news and the unpalatable news of looting, railway holdups, arson and murder being committed by the rebels daily, there is nothing currently of interest...
...narrow-gauge railway, wood-burning and rachitic, is the regular transport over the 1,000 miles between Rio and the boomtown of Anapolis, in Goiaz (see map). It takes four days & nights by rail to reach Anapolis, gateway to the rich backlands, and longer if the trip is made by road. But from the lush lowlands of the north and the coffee fazendas to the south, 50,000 Brazilians a year are passing through muddy, roughhewn Anapolis in search of new homes and new times, just as U.S. pioneers a century ago left the Atlantic coast and headed west...
...schools. The hospital, too, needs funds. So far, the colony has concentrated on rice as a cash crop; Sayão is not sure but that cotton or coffee might be better. Also, the road that was the colony's lifeline leads only to Anapolis' one-horse railway. Now Sayão is driving the highway some 130 miles beyond his colony's limits, to the banks of the Tocantins. There his trucks may meet boats that could carry the goods of Goiaz down to the Amazon...
...million steel mill for Paul Shields, another contractor, who will own and operate the mill. He bought controlling interest in a lumber company in Chihuahua. Last summer he teamed up with Mexican bankers, raised $3½ million and bought control of the 500-mile-long Mexico North-Western Railway, which runs from Juarez to Chihuahua...
More concerned with the thoughts and reactions of Russians, than in their physical setting, "Through Russia's Back Door" is a running account of conversations and incidents from Shanghai to Berlin, as a reporter saw them. Lauterbach was tied down to a coach of the Trans-Siberian Railway through most of the trip, and the book necessarily suffers from the limitations of such a vantage point. This narrow scope of observation does not, however invalidate his report; it merely robs it of the greater sampling possible if be had been allowed free rein to talk and travel as he pleased...