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...airplane crash on the cloud-draped slopes of windy Orizaba, eight Mexicans and eight U.S. citizens had died together. They had also died in the same cause. All were workers of the U.S.-Mexican commission fighting aftosa (foot & mouth disease...
...very night of the crash, on the alpine slopes of Orizaba (18,000 ft.), things began going wrong. Mexicans were first to reach the wreckage. They were presently joined by a U.S. rescue party including seven soldiers-some armed...
...Minister of Hydraulic Resources, is deep in this tierra caliente, finding suitable spots for work camps and hospitals to shelter and care for an army of laborers. Four huge dams will be built across the Papaloapan's tributaries, creating giant lakes in the shadow of snowcapped Orizaba (18,701 ft.). The twisting Papaloapan itself will be dredged to make a ship channel from Tuxtepec, 149 miles from the Gulf. At Chacaltianguis a canal will be built to link the river with swampy lakes farther north and to provide a catch basin to control floods. A war will be waged...
John Kennedy, 21, second son of President Roosevelt's alert Ambassador Joe, was shot by his sire from London up to Glasgow last week to help interview survivors of the sunken S. S. Athenia. He was authorized to say that the U. S. steamer Orizaba was being sent over to fetch the Athenians home. The neutral yacht Stella Polaris was also being sought from Raymond-Whitcomb Travel Service (world tours...
That news spread so fast through Veracruz that the next afternoon found 15,000 Catholics swarming menacingly in Orizaba, routing guards and forcing their way into the city's 14 closed churches, frantically ringing bells that had been silent for a decade. Hastily the city authorities canceled a Mardi Gras celebration that would have brought thousands more Catholics into town. Veracruz's youthful new Governor Miguel Alemán was so besieged during a visit to the Orizaba city hall that he slipped out a side door and made for nearby Córdoba. Apparently to stall...