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“An All-American Highway would bring the people of Central and South America into more d;rect business relationships with those of the United. States and create a better understanding among these nations.”
"We ought to lend our encouragement in any wav we can for more good roads to all the principal points m this hemisphere south of the Rio Grande ”—President Coolidge
”1 want to see 100.000 American cars crossing the line into Mexico to enable the American people to sec and meet my people that standing may obtain between the tv
"Resolved, that it is.the sense of the Senate that the President enter into negotiations with Mexico or any other republic or Central or South America for the purpose of concluding treaties or conventions providing Cor (11 the establishment of
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with the. United States and (2b the construction-of an international highway connecting the United States with such country ”—Senate Joint Resolution by Senator Oddie. Also see H R "344 and H R 447
"Such a highway (Pan-American 1 will have a profound influence on international relations, increasing amity and promoting lasting friendships and w’ll augment trade and transportation facilities fully 100 per cent in any of the countries during the first year of ooerntion.”
"A through highway from Canada to Argentine can be opened for traffic within 0 to 10 years.”—U. S. Senate Report No. 1498 to S 5031 C*9th Congress.
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"When this (Pan-American! highway is completed. Wichita will be one of the important cities on the 15.000-mile road. This part of the United StateB is the logical place for a north-and-south hichway. And the Meridian Highway, which is already
1 of the best of the cross-country roads, is the logical t for «he greater project.”—“A Grandicose Dream.”- Wichita Beacon.
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"The goal of a highway from Winnipeg to far off Buenos Aires may seem unattainable now. but the time will come without a doubt when the Yankton Motorist may take his vocation jaunt down across the equator and on an improved road all the
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"This is such a big one (dream! that it takes your breath away for a time. But it is practical. And what is more it is inevitable.—Yankton Press and Dakotan.
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from the hub of a great national highway system to the junction point with the greatest and longest international highway in the world.”— Newton Kansan.
"If each country will build one north and south road across its domain—and no. country can afford to do less—and same meet at a common poin» at international boundry line what is now a dream will be a fact, Thoustnds of miles of the proposed road south of the Rio Grande is now heing used by half a million automobiles "—John C Nicholson.^ President of Internationa] Meridian Highway Association,
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DISTANCES
Winnipeg to Laredo .......
(100% All-Weather Road)
Laredo to Mexico City..:___
Mexico City to Guatemala...
Guatemala to San Salvador... San Salvador to Managua-.... Managua to Panama Canal ... Panama Canal to Guayaquil...
Guayaquil to Lima .'. .....
Lima to Antofagasta... ....
Antofagasta to Valparaiso..
Valpariso to Buenos Aires__
Miles
1850
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Total.
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PAN-AMERICAN HIGHWAY—MERIDIAN—U. S. 81