Word: industria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...setting up, by himself or in cooperation with foreign firms, other companies to manufacture the materials and machinery he needed. Says Quintana: "ICA has become a mother-hen company that creates everything and has its own chickens and eggs around it." Among the results of that policy are Industria del Hierro, a machinery producer in Querétaro, and partnerships with a dozen European and U.S. firms-including Link-Belt Speeder Co., now a division of FMC Corp. of California...
...bargain dolce vita across the Rio Grande. And the Mexi can government is doing its best to help the process of discovery. This month speakers from the National Council of Tourism, headed by ex-president Miguel Aleman, are campaigning throughout North America to build up Mexico's industria de los viejitos-the oldster industry-which the council estimates would be worth $400 million a year if Mexico could attract only 1% of the annual retirees in the U.S. and Canada...
...Acting through intermediaries, March owns or controls Spain's tobacco and gasoline monopolies, a major bank (Banco Central), the principal brewery, chemical companies, mines, shipyards, steel plants, power and oil companies, and even a Coca-Cola bottling plant. He has a stake in the Institute Nacional de Industria, the state-owned agency for industrial development that controls and invests in private industry with state capital. Outside Spain, he controls weblike holding companies in London and New York, has a 25% interest in the Swiss international banking firm, Societe de Banque Suisse. "I have no need of banks," March...