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First to Flow. Without doubt, black gold abounded in the Montana-as Peruvians call their Amazonian foothills east of the Andes. A jungle-whacking, California-financed wildcatter-the Ganso Azul (Blue Goose) Petroleum Co.-had long since proved that. Last week, Ganso Azul was hard at work, as it had been for seven years, not exploring but producing, cracking petroleum and selling gasoline, kerosene and diesel...
Last week the Plunkett, Gilmer and Paul Jones asked identity and destination of two more vessels off Tampico, this time Latin-American merchantmen: the Mexican tanker Cerro Azul, inbound in ballast on a coastwise trip, and the Honduran freighter Ceiba out of New Orleans. In a story from Tampico smelling rankly of Nazi propaganda it was reported that the ships were boarded by U. S. sailors, their captains questioned, their papers checked, their cargo registries examined...
Rough and raucous Governor Vargas Lugo of the State of Hidalgo seized last week from its British owners the Cruz Azul Portland Cement factory, largest in Mexico, appraised for taxation at 1,000,000 pesos...
Employes of Cruz Azul recently proposed to buy the plant, offered a down payment of 3% and future payments in correspondingly minute installments. When the owners refused this offer, Governor Lugo saw his chance to invoke for the first time his State's new Public Utility Expropriation Law, promulgated April 25. By plucking a group of Britons whose Government happens to be on the other side of the earth and headed by an avowed Pacifist, shrewd Governor Lugo hoped to set a precedent for plucking U. S. investors. The only questions were: 1) Is a cement factory a public...
President Juan Esteban Montero calmed his citizenry and suppressed a threatening revolution last week by switching Cabinets, declaring martial law for 60 days. That seemed to pacify the people of Chile, but not even Juan Esteban Montero could cope with her volcanoes. Volcanoes Tinguiririca, Quisapu. Cordillera, Descabezado, Cerro Azul all erupted at once. Rolling clouds of ashes blew East across Argentina, settled on Buenos Aires 500 miles away. All night the earth rumbled, the sky flashed, nobody went...