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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...
...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 utility? 2) Is Hidalgo's law constitutional in Mexico...
...Much has been said about the ultimate probability that cement roads will supplant rails as the cheapest means of transportation. Such a possibility does not exist; one freight train carries as much coal as could be transported in a thousand trucks, each of which would necessarily require a driver, with accompanying high costs. Only one tenth of the transported commodities of the country are handled by motor trucks...
Other animals have other miseries: Hella, the lioness, whose second prison-born, litter is taken from her when the cubs reach circus age; Mino, the little red fox, who periodically runs, chasing insanity, in narrowing circles around his cement cage. But there are human sufferers as well. A young man who makes friends with the girl who takes care of Peter, the bicycle-riding chimpanzee, is so horrified by the animals' sufferings that he plans to sacrifice himself in atonement. One night he steals into the elephant's cage, deliberately begins to lead away the elephant's pet, a little...
...later Fire Chief Rossignol (Nightingale) arrived and Lyonese firemen attacked the ruins, working furiously to rescue entrapped persons before there should be another slide. Like a commanding general Mayor Herriot backed off, took a perspective view of the hillside, conferred with city engineers who agreed with him that a cement earth-retaining wall was about to collapse. Mayor Herriot ordered Fire Chief Nightingale to sound a firemen's retreat...