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Sound-Off. Near the end of the war he had his first real skirmish with Pan Am, when he tried to operate a route in Mexico, where Pan Am's affiliate, Compania Mexicana de Aviación S.A., was already well established (TIME, Aug. 13, 1945). Braniff finally lost the Mexican routes when he made the Mexicans mad by sounding off against local government officials...
...Journal of the American Chemical Society, Dr. Russell E. Marker, veteran hormone researcher, reported that botogenin, a substance providing a short cut to one of the 37 stages in the expensive, laborious transformation of ox bile into cortisone, was found in a common yam of tropical America, Dioscorea mexicana...
...terrible complex of Mexican women," said Diego, "is proved by the phenomenon that North American women, especially the most beautiful and well-formed, as soon as they reach Mexico and go to a semitropical climate, for example Cuernavaca, throw off their imported clothes and dress Mexicana . . . gaining 100% in their looks...
...Mexico City, most businesses require at least two telephones. Reason: there are two companies, Mexican Ericsson Co. and Mexicana Telephone & Telegraph Co., and their switchboards do not connect. Last week, a $49 million merger was completed to end this inconvenience. The new combination would be called Telefonos de Mexico, S.A., and an old hand at empire-building hoped that it would make him Mexico's telephone king. The man: Sweden's famed Axel Wenner-Gren...
...million Mexican Ericsson Co. was owned by Sweden Ericsson Co. Wenner-Gren got it by swapping some of his Swedish securities. With Mexican Ericsson, he got its 49% ownership of the rival Mexicana Telephone & Telegraph Co. The other 51% of Mexicana is owned by International Telephone & Telegraph Co. (see above). For that, Wenner-Gren agreed to pay I.T. & T. some $11 million, raised by selling other Swedish holdings and using U.S. dollars earned by his stock in Servel, Inc. (refrigerators) and Electrolux Corp. (vacuum cleaners...