Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pemex itself, ridden with politics and labor trouble when Aleman came to power, is now a going business operation. In the opinion of one oldtime Mexico City oilman, it "stands out like a 20,000-ft. mountain when compared with other Mexican government operations." Over the past six years, as Pemex has ended its anti-U.S. policy and sent technicians north of the border for advanced training, production has increased an average of 15% annually, is now almost double what it was the year before expropriation. Two big refineries have been built at Reynosa and Salamanca, three other refining...
...Brigadier General Humberto Mariles, 1948 Olympic champion, and France's brilliant Pierre d'Oriola, this year's Olympic winner. As it turned out, Mariles and D'Oriola had their duel-but it was for secondary honors. The surprise star of the show, breaking a longtime Mexican monopoly: young (27) Billy Steinkraus of Westport, Conn., far & away the most glittering amateur rider to come up in the U.S. for years...
...Mexico meet Chihuahua and Sonora." The time is a few years after the Civil War, and the hero is a young gun-toter named Martin Brady, who has expatriated himself to Mexico for a good reason: at 14 he killed a man back in Texas. Brady is more Mexican than gringo now, a hard, quiet, mercenary gunman who works for a Mexican landowner. But he has a hankering for Texas and can never forget where home is. He makes it home for good, finally, as a Texas Ranger, but not until after enough Indian fighting and other assorted acts...
...companies, he formed American Independent Oil Co. (TIME, July 19, 1948). With State Department aid, he won an oil concession in the neutral zone of Kuwait and poured $10 million into mapping and surveying the area (he hopes to sink new test wells next month). He set up a Mexican subsidiary with Oilman Samuel B. Mosher, president of Signal Oil & Gas Co., and spent another $3,000,000 getting it into production (present output: 5,000 barrels a day). Then he got Mosher on American President Lines' board, and formed A.P.L. Associates to buy the line. Mosher...
...Ankrum, who is trying to keep California from statehood. Fortunately, just as Conte is about to be hanged for Ankrum's death, California joins the Union, a general amnesty is declared, and he is free to rejoin beautiful Viveca Lindfors, who plays the daughter of a dispossessed old Mexican family but speaks with a charming Swedish accent. When the scenario doesn't get in the way, the moviegoer can enjoy some handsome California scenery...