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the scenic, historic and sporting attractions of Latin America now that access to them is so easy.
My recollection is that the cost of an all-expense tour from Chicago to Rio de Janeiro is around $800. You can go to Rio, spend a week in Rio, live in the finest hotel there, have all your bills paid, and come back to Chicago, for less than $900. 

Expanding Air Mail
The steadily mounting volume of air mail on all routes to South America is evidence of the daily utilization of this method of transportation by merchants, by officials and individuals. The volume of Air Express traffic is likewise expanding. In Peru, Pan American-Grace Airways has transported heavy mining machinery to points high in the mountains formerly accessible only by pack animals which were, of course, incapable of carrying anything but light machinery parts. The tri-motor Ford formerly used for mail service and which is now displaced by the Douglas land transports and Sikorsky amphibians on the international service, can easily lift single pieces weighing as much as a ton and a half and set them down in these remote locations, there to crush gold and silver ore, which could not be worked by the light machinery to which the operation was formerly confined. 

Express Air Freight
The variety of merchandise shipped by air express beggars complete description but the following items recur on the manifests: Samples of coffee, raw cotton, nitrate and mineral ores, moving picture films, pharmaceutical and biological products, news photographs, spare parts, spectacle lenses, jewelry, (incidentally, Americans, instead of hoarding gold, are apparently hoarding diamonds, bringing a lot of them in by air), cigars, fresh flowers, live lobsters, blueprints, contract specifications, financial and legal documents, electrical apparatus, household effects, sporting goods, radio parts, printing machinery parts, clothing, footwear, yeast, baby chicks, phonographs and parts, musical instruments, food-canned and dried, etc., steam engine parts, gold bullion, scientific instruments, books, automotive accessories, cosmetics, office supplies, and equipment, etc.

How Bogota Light Plants Was Repaired
Incidentally, last Friday afternoon a telegram was received in Chicago saying that the electric light plant in Bogota was partly disabled. At seven-fifteen P. M. that same day 125 pounds of electrical supplies were placed in an air liner, at Chicago. At four-fifteen on

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