Word: mexico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wage increase through and we'll leave," was the gist of the response last August when a committee backed by Mexico's President Lazaro Cardenas ordered 17 U. S. and other foreign oil companies to pay a wage increase of some...
...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...
Tamazunchale is some 500 feet about sea level. To reach Mexico City on a vast plateau 8000 feet in the air, it is necessary to close one's eyes and drive madly around the side of precipitous mountain slopes. Of course characteristic of the Mexican temperament is the fact that the mountain road was begun from Tamazunchale and from Mexico City, the center portion, and by far the most harrowing portion, being left to luck and the last. Aside from the fact that the road is unpaved, that great boulders are apt to crash down from above on the slightest...
Leaving the territory of the phlegmatic mountain dwellers, the dirty trousered, bare-chested men and the Mother Hubbarded women, the road enters Mexico City through suburbs slightly worse than Harlem, slightly better than Philadelphia's Lombard Street. Toward the center of the city, the Vagabond found himself engulfed in screaming traffic that approached from a million different directions at once. To the Mexican driver, the horn is far more important than the brake, and the velocity and direction of his vehicle depend solely on the whim of the man at the wheel. If Rhode Island motorists are the worst...
...tired Vagabond who hit the hay that evening, but the fever of Mexico was already in him, and he knew the days to come were to be filled with events worthy of an entirely unfamiliar land...