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...steals the show as Phillippe the Mouse, a devil-may-care pickpocket who saunters through impenetrable fortresses, subterranean passageways and enchanted forests. In the process of extricating himself from the grasp of some rather unsavory soldiers charges with reimprisonng the lawless but lovable Phillippe in the infamous prison of Aguila, our hero meets up with Nararre, the aforementioned chivalrous knight who rescues the Mouse just in time and spirits him off to safety...

Author: By Cristna V. Colletta, | Title: Noble Nerd | 4/12/1985 | See Source »

...months ago the Government intervened to end a 13-day, nation-wide strike, commissioned a group of experts to study the financial condition of the $500,000,000 foreign-controlled industry. Last week the commission ordered that the 17 companies, including the Royal Dutch-Shell affiliate, Aguila, controlling 50% of national production, and Standard Oil of New Jersey's Huasteca subsidiary, make wage increases and establish other workers' benefits aggregating $7,200,000 annually. The report called for establishment of the 40-hour week, increase of the minimum wage to 4.90 pesos ($1.38) a day, and setting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: $1.38 Minimum | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

...surpluses of the companies totaled more than $21,000,000. "The principal foreign petroleum companies form great American and British trusts and their interests have often been far from and even on occasions opposed to Mexican national interests," the report concluded, adding the specific charge that Shell subsidiary, Aguila, has "monopolistic tendencies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: $1.38 Minimum | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

...often as must be the case in a University. Under the name of the Cireulo Espanol the Club continued its existence for a while. Last year it was reorganized as the Club Espanol de Harvard under the leadership of professor Guillermo Rivers, as faculty advisor, and Mr. Emilio Aguila as president. At the regular meetings several speakers were presented and they discuss various topics of interest...

Author: By Earle S. Randall, | Title: Spanish Club Offers Unique Approach to Iberian History and Present Scene | 10/29/1935 | See Source »

...Near Aguila, Ariz, one rainy night last week a bus scrunched along a soggy road, bearing 35 Mormon Church members back to their homes. Led by their Bishop Morris R. Perry, they had made a four-day pilgrimage to a Mormon temple at Mesa. Suddenly with a wrenching screech of jammed brakes the bus crashed through a detour sign which the driver had seen too late. Slithering off the road the bus turned over. When help arrived five Mormon women and a girl-baby were dead, all but two of the rest were injured. Said Bishop Perry: "There were only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Church Bus | 3/5/1934 | See Source »

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