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Born in Ohio, raised on a New Mexico ranch, he was "married, divorced and bankrupt" before he was 21. After going broke he settled down to work for the Overland used-car agency in Los Angeles until one day he heard that a steam laundry was badly needed in Tampico, Mexico, to wash oil workers' dirty shirts...
...time Bowman got to Tampico a local group had already started a steam laundry, so he bought a little motor boat to pull barges. When this enterprise failed, he and another young American chugged off to Veracruz, conceived the idea of revolutionizing the mahogany trade by floating mahogany logs down the rivers to the Gulf. The two adventurers struggled for several days getting a mahogany log out of the forest into a small stream, where, since mahogany is heavier than water, it immediately sank...
...been 20 years ago. And Leon Trotsky was once more a newly-landed exile in America, only this time he was in Mexico. After the Norwegian Government got tired of having him around (TIME, Dec. 28), put hin aboard a Norwegian tanker and landed him in Tampico (TIME, Jan. 18), he promptly began to receive appropriate honors as World Revolutionist No. 1. The Republic of Mexico is ruled by a political party whose orators refer to themselves with enthusiasm as "The Revolution! "* Mexico is today the only major Latin-American state whose Government admires Big Reds...
...Long Beach, Calif., the lo-Dow Chemical Co. produces a substantial per centage of all U. S. iodine. At Tulsa, Okla., Tampico, Mexico and other oil-producing areas subsidiaries process oil and gas wells to make them more productive. At Bay City, Mich., 18 mi. from Midland on Lake Huron, Dow now makes a magnesium alloy that is one-third lighter than aluminum and good for airplane and machinery parts. At Marquette, Mich., on Lake Superior, a subsidiary called Cliffs Dow Chemical Co., in which the parent company has a 60% interest, makes charcoal, combustible gases and acids from wood...
Died. Edward Laurence Doheny, 79, Los Angeles oil tycoon; after a three-year illness; in Los Angeles. A mule-driver at 16, he looked for gold for 20 years, found little, switched to oil. tapped the Los Angeles field and another great pool near Tampico in Mexico, built up a $155,000,000 petroleum empire. He was indicted for bribing Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall with $100,000 to secure the Elk Hills oil lease from the Government. was acquitted in 1930 when he convinced a Washington jury that the $100,000 in a "little black...