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[Black and white photograph of a busy, crowded marketplace.]
Photograph by Wilson Popenoe

A MARKET IN BOGOTÁ, SOUTHEAST CITY REACHED BY THE AMERICAN FLYER

Although planes have rescued it from age-old isolation, Bogotá's working habits are little
affected. As in early days, life is still most active around the markets. Each section handles
its own class of products. In the foreground are plantain venders selling a banana that must
be baked or boiled ; beyond are mats, baskets, and bird cages made of reeds.

[Black and white photograph of open airplane hangars on the bank of a river.]
©Scadta

LONG-DISTANCE AIR LINES PAY WHEN NO RAILWAYS COMPETE

From Barranquilla to Bogotá, along the Magdalena River, in Colombia, Germans operate
an air commerce line. Before these planes came, Bogotá people often took many days to reach
the sea by river steamer [a portion of the document has been cut out] These are the hangars of the Magdalena
air line at Barranquilla.

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