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...almost unheard of in the U. S., but in Mexico he is considered not only the nation's Lindbergh and Roscoe Turner but its Juan Trippe. He is president and co-founder (with his three brothers) of one of Mexico's most important native-owned airlines, the Compania Transportes Aéreos de Chiapas. Last year it carried approximately 17,000 passengers, 18,000 Ibs. of mail, 3,000,000 Ibs. of freight, made enough money to double its equipment. It now has 28 ships of a half-dozen makes, 14 pilots. Sarabia considers his airline worth about...
...property of the Government, turned over to the National Petroleum Administration some 100,000 acres subleased by Standard Oil Co. of California, 250,000 acres leased by the Richmond Petroleum Co. of Mexico, Standard Oil Co. of California subsidiary, and 500,000 acres leased to the French-financed Compania Agricola y Colonizadora de Tabasco. Nationalization of oil lands not under lease has been proceeding apace for some months but last week's seizure was the first to hit lands already under private contract...
...valley between the snowy volcanoes of Popocatépetl ("Smoking Mountain") and Ixtaccihuatl ("White Woman") Mexican peons in the hamlet of Amecameca one day last week were aroused from their mid-morning siesta by the noise of an airplane. Looking up, they spied an old trimotored Ford belonging to Compania Mexicana de Aviación, a subsidiary of Pan American Airways Chartered half an hour before by Hamburg-American Line, the plane was chugging its way from Mexico City to Guatemala. The courteous Mexican pilot had detoured from the regular course because he wished to show his country...
Worst air accident in Mexican history, the crack-up was the first mishap of any kind in the twelve-year career of Compania Mexicana de Aviaci...
...Roosevelt is apparently going to have an early chance to show how sincere he was in his annunciation of a new and more altruistic policy in South and Central American diplomacy. Yesterday in Cuba the government assumed control of the Compania Cubana de Electricitad after the company had failed to come to an agreement with its employees and a strike resulted. The company is an affiliate of the Electric Bond and Share Company and represents an investment of about two hundred million dollars; consequently there is bound to be a terrific howl raised in Wall Street for American intervention...