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From Indiana to Jersey, In Mexico: 1,500,000 acres of oil land (principally in the Tampico territory), 750 mi. of pipe lines, 65 mi. of railroads. In Venezuela: 3,100,000 acres of oil & gas land in the Lake Maracaibo District. On the island of Aruba, D. W. I.; a refining plant of 115,000-bbl. daily capacity. At Hamburg: an asphalt plant. On the high seas: 29 tankers of 1,700,000-bbl. capacity. These are the principal foreign properties of Pan-American Petroleum & Transport Co., 95%-owned by Standard Oil of Indiana. Last week Indiana...
...Tampico, Mexico, Enrique Bosdet and Salvador Rodriguez patented a contraption to be fastened to coffins so as to ring a bell above ground at the slightest movement within the coffin. (Mexican law requires that a body be buried within 24 hours after death; embalming is rare; danger of burial alive in Mexico is great.) Cost of the gadget: ten pesos...
...American diction furnish a rich variety of also fronts. Around Cambridge certain students quickly assimilate a so-called Harvard accent along with class banners and Veritas shields. This dialect fortunately has no such widespread influence as the Oxonian, yet it does serve to stamp some Harvard men from Tampico to Timbuctoo. While the lingo of a telephone girl often prevents one from making embarrassing remarks to the wrong person, the Harvard accent has no significance beyond indicating that its possessor has got the wrong number...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh flew non-stop from Washington, D. C. to Mexico City in his Ryan monoplane Spirit of St. Louis, in 27 hr. He lost hours searching for the course from Tampico to Valbuena Field. †August 1920. Maj. Theodore McAuley, San Diego-Jacksonville, 19 hr. 10 min. September 1922, Lieut. James Harold Doolittle, Jacksonville-San Diego...
...story he rewrote 20 times, parts of it 100 times; did not succeed in selling a story till 14 years later. He lives well in West Chester, Pa., collects antiques, is married. Other books: The Three Black Pennys, Quiet Cities, Tubal Cain, The Lay Anthony, Mountain Blood, Wild Oranges, Tampico, Swords and Roses, The Bright Shawl, Java Head, Balisand, From an Old House, The Dark Fleece, The Happy End, Cytherea, Linda Condon, San Cristobal de la Habana...