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...noisy Nelson Rounsevell's Panama American, there came to Panama City two Spanish boys in a battered Studebaker touring car. The chassis of the machine was set high on the axles, it had no mudguards, and it looked to be capable of negotiating even a jungle cart trail. On the side flapped a dusty banner proclaiming its destination as "New York, America, U. S. A." At that time no motor road crossed the Isthmus from Panama City (southeast) to Colon (northwest). The Panama Railroad hurdled huge Gatun Lake on a trestle, planes soared from side to side...
...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 impassable trail. Then the route slips into Panama, where it again becomes a first-class road for 300 miles to Panama City...
...color replaces black & white photography, the change will be less abrupt than that from silent pictures to sound, partly because color requires no new exhibiting apparatus. Nonetheless, the swing to color, barely perceptible last year, will be highly noticeable in 1936-37. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine and Dancing Pirate were last season's only colored features. Next season United Artists will make six, Twentieth Century-Fox two, Paramount two, Warner, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Amkino one each...
...most extensive busline business in the U. S. which last year earned net profits of over four and one half million dollars is the (1 Northland Transportation, 2 Transcontinental, 3 Santa Fe Trail, 4 Pan-American, 5 Greyhound Corporation...
...director, who got a divorce from Mack Truckman Alfred Joseph Brosseau in 1930 because he slapped her face when she refused him the key to their wine cellar. Small, grim, wiry Mrs. Brosseau said that whenever the U. S. had "paused on the long trail of progress," women had been "right there with their first-aid kits. The state at which we have arrived," she cried, "did not spring up in a night. It dates back to the Secret Order of the Illuminati, which was organized in 1776 by Adam Weishaupt of Bavaria, and which caused the fomenting of revolutions...