up but it's been tougher on some other people and people in one of the countries that used to be called banana republic is quite a story back if you're not having bananas and it's a war story twenty four hours after pearl harbor the republic of honduras declared oceans its air patrols of help stand guard against axis submarines and from the first and during the sailors have gone to war in the merchant marine of the united nations half a hundred or more have already lost their lives others three times torpedoed every turn of that services eagerly as they entered it and turns out tough but this ally has even more to contribute in its human world it was an amazing machine for example agricultural production needing special irrigation they developed an overhead system that threw water for a hundred yards with the sheer control of a housewife watering a window box every phase of the work was time to the minute and their north coast was geared to get out bananas are most to well geared government revenues wages food clothing and most all of these were dependent on banana production bananas sent out by ship that is before the war with more there are fewer ships and higher priorities a few manana still mold the food companies did what they could to keep men on thousands had to be let out and they were thousands more dependent on them back on the plantations bananas rotted on the ground in the towns  were in danger of going to waste some headed for the interior but the north coast trouble was already meeting hunger in the hills most had to stay where they were these north coasters were united nations manpower men willing and able to get out the rubber abacha mahogany and other materials that hundreds can produce finding stuff for abacha can't be found overnight right scale mahogany rubber production can't be organized in a day shipping economic theories takes time and organization for  man to get broken hungry takes no time at all or sometimes better bitterness can be distorted thinking and some telephone poles that for swastikas began to appear something had to be done and something was coast heard what the hundred government this nation an ambassador one had decided to do it started by looking at a map to go to gabble the capital has no real way it's hard to get from coast to coast and hundred and there a truck could get through the hills to like you or where it wasn't hard deep mud it was more like a pile of rocks than a road that's right those tires are united nations rubber those rocks the cure for certain half a dozen trips  that way straight through the lake your heart and what amounts to the only coast to coast road in the panama canal to mexico mans work and it was starting fast consignments a toll started to protrude as the day the agreement was signed selected men were drawn from every town in the north coast bunkhouses went up warehouses cook shacks the main body of workmen moved in five engineers began the job and it was really an all american team nine weeks after this project started nearly two thousand men were useless at work and the road was pushing through for like  some machinery but not much this job wasn't asking for equipment more needed elsewhere use what they had and then provide the rest yes it's good to work again the laundry was a gift from nature engineers help on the water supply meals were private enterprise price per day is board was held to pass the daily wage later supplies were better organized it dropped to a third and every day the road went forward when you're short on trucks and i'm asking favors you make out with what you can lay your hands on going stack up with any in the world there stone is cut square and there ditches straight it wasn't easy though even with good men not with malaria and dysentery around that engineer lost thirty pounds the first four months of the job the american engineer dropped more than fifty how many thousand pounds the man lost altogether would be pretty hard to count any road needs bridges ditching and co this one though has to stand up on the range that can come down six inches a day that means good bridges and lots of culver day pushes the road on a nice night the men march home as from a victory they have a right to it's hard country hard to build a road in and to stay healthy and that's an important building first hospital in the project dysentery and malaria a tropical twins