Word: electricidad
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...With major holdings in some 50 U.S. and foreign power companies, the more important of which include: Campañia Argentina de Electricidad (CADE), which operates light & power plants in the Buenos Aires area; Mexican Light & Power, Ltd.; Belgium's Société d'Electricite de Rosario; Portugal's Compagnies Réunies Gaz et Electricité; and, in the U.S., the Public Service of of Indiana, Inc. and Central Illinois Public Service...
...people of Cali (pop. 125,000) had long complained about the rates and service of the Compania Colombiana de Electricidad, subsidiary of Electric Bond and Share. Last week they began a general strike which spread until the whole city was tied up. Troops were called out, but there was no disorder, no sign of anti-U.S. sentiment. After two days the municipal authorities capitulated, agreed to expropriate the local company, pay for it with a special bond issue...
...investments in Chile totalled $442,000,000. Most important companies were Baldwin Locomotive Works; Wright Aeronautical Corp., having local factories; All America Cables, which beside its cable business operates the local telephone system; Electric Bond & Share Co., operating trams, providing light and power through its subsidiary Compania Chilena de Electricidad; and "Cosach," the Guggenheim nitrate combine, which controls 35% of the world's annual output of natural fertilizer. Nitrates were what brought Chile to this sorry pass...
Eleven Years, Most important boy in Connecticut's Rumsey Hall school last week was small Paul Vecker, 11, son of General Manager W. Paul Vecker of Compania Cubana de Electricidad. Unescorted, tugging at a heavy suitcase, small Paul went to Newark airport, boarded an Eastern Air Transport plane for Miami, there to change to Pan American Airways, to spend his Easter holidays with his parents in Cuba...
...Compañía Chileña de Electricidad, Limitada, local subsidiary of Ebasco, returned a soft answer. In an open letter to Santiago's three most important papers they wrote that they were surprised and shocked at President Ibañez's protest, the more so since the power contract in every stage of its development had been inspected and approved by congressional and technical commissions "composed of Chileans of high repute," finally that it had been enthusiastically approved by none other than Señor Francisco Lobos, Director of the Electrical Services of the Republic. However...
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