Word: mexicana
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...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's most...
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...
...Romans, the Greeks, and to the Middle Ages and ourselves. There is a chapter on fresco painting--just now, with the astonishing revival of that genre, Mr. Laurie's remarks, like the late Gardner Hale's brochure, ought to be useful to earnest Americans, eager to appreciate both the Mexicana and our native products...
General Plutarco Elias Calles, 53, "Strong Man of Mexico," Secretary of War and onetime President, was elected head of Compania Hulera Mexicana, newly organized to make synthetic rubber. In January the company will have a factory ready to produce 400 motor tires and 5,000 rubber heels daily. The formula is the work of one Julio Tellez Giron, 46, research chemist who spent 17 years developing his theory that petroleum in its early stages closely resembles rubber. His process is to take crude petroleum, mix it with ground sugar cane. This compound is refined, fried in the sun, vulcanized with...
...passengers only lost money last year. Such operators have been hanging on with the sole hope of acquiring mail contracts. Last week Pickwick Latin-American Airways Inc. found its burden too great, suspended its service between Los Angeles, Mexico City and San Salvador. Other U. S.-Mexico airlines: Compania Mexicana de Aviacion (subsidiary of U. S.-owned Pan American Airways, Inc.) and Corporacion Aeronautica de Transportes ("CAT lines") which connects with domestic routes at El Paso and Brownsville...