Word: mexico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Motor Oil for the Northern lap of his trip from Buenos Aires to New York. From this point contact was made with our representatives in San Jose, Managua, Tegucigalpa, San Salvador and Guatemala City requesting that the proper courtesies be extended upon his arrival. The Huasteca Petroleum Co. of Mexico was also notified with the request that they in turn contact associate companies across the U. S. border. We, therefore, were most interested in reading of the successful culmination of his "trek" as appeared in TIME...
...Campeche, Chiapas. A sweeping decree, employing Article XXVII of the Constitution, which makes all subsoil wealth the property of the Government, turned over to the National Petroleum Administration some 100,000 acres subleased by Standard Oil Co. of California, 250,000 acres leased by the Richmond Petroleum Co. of Mexico, Standard Oil Co. of California subsidiary, and 500,000 acres leased to the French-financed Compania Agricola y Colonizadora de Tabasco. Nationalization of oil lands not under lease has been proceeding apace for some months but last week's seizure was the first to hit lands already under private...
During the first three years of his "social revolution," President Cardenas has not been actively thwarted by Mexico's judiciary, Supreme Court Justices even going so far as to promise "cooperation" with the Administration. Last week a Federal district court judge in the capital evidenced the first outright fulfilling of such promises when he refused to hear the initial case challenging the constitutionality of Cardenas' land-division program...
Fast. Flying a 14-cylinder, 1,200 h.p. Twin-Wasp Sever sky that won him the Bendix Trophy for 1937, California's Frank W. Fuller last week whizzed out of Vancouver, crossed 20 miles of Canada, 1,184 miles of U. S. and penetrated 5 miles into Mexico, landing at Agua Caliente 4 hours, 54 minutes after his takeoff. Flyer Fuller cut 34 minutes off the best previous time for linking the three North American nations, claimed to have used but 670 h.p. in his flight...
...these, 23 are on leave of absence from the Public Health Departments of various states and foreign countries, including Mexico, Poland, and Turkey, and 2 Professors on leave of absence from other universities...