Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main American Airlines route across the country slants off from Newark southwest through Washington and Memphis to Fort Worth, then skirts the Mexican border and enters Los Angeles from the south. American also has a line from Chicago to Los Angeles through St. Louis and Fort Worth. According to the advertisement, on these runs the average altitude is precisely 1,101 ft., and therefore is the best way to fly to Los Angeles...
...transportation" was headed by a reproachful question: What are the REAL FACTS about Coast to Coast flying United's facts turned out to be slightly different from American's facts. Mr. Patterson began by pointing out that the Rocky Mountains extend from the Canadian border to the Mexican border, and no U. S. airline can get to California without flying over them. "United," he flatly counter-claimed, "flies fewer miles of mountainous terrain than the currently advertised 'Low Level Route.' Based on a normal airway width the highest point on United is lower than that...
...proposed increase was the Mexican Government's way of settling a strike by 18,000 Mexican oil workers which seriously threatened Mexico's depleted Treasury, greatly dependent upon taxes paid by foreign oil interests. Oilmen, already spouting over vigorous President Cardenas' expropriation of 850,000 acres of undeveloped oil lands leased by foreigners, objected vigorously and the wage problem was referred to a Mexican board of arbitration and conciliation. Even friendly U. S. Ambassador Josephus Daniels protested...
Last month President Cardenas neatly split the opposition by a deal with Mexican Eagle Oil Co. (an affiliate of British Royal Dutch-Shell, which controls 60% of Mexican oil production), yielding it full control of the rich Poza Rica field in return for royalties of 15% to 35% of the petroleum produced (TIME...
...Treasury's prospects, President Cardenas put the next move squarely up to the 15 U. S companies. He decreed that the $7,000,000 wage increase should go into effect. While Ambassador Daniels muttered, the U. S. companies pondered whether they really would abandon their $175,000,000 Mexican investment...