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...fourth time this year he fired a state governor for incapacity. This time it was the turn of Hugo Pedro González, governor of Tamaulipas, linked too closely with last fortnight's murder of Tampico Editor Vincente Villasa...
...organize a Mexican company, operated by Mexicans, and paying more than lip service to the Mexican economy. For himself he asked for a fair return on his investment, a traffic hookup between his two airlines. This brand of Yankee business easily won Mexican favor, plus route privileges to Tampico, Merida, Vera Cruz...
...Mexico City, it was announced that the storm had broken the oil pipeline from Tampico in four places. That meant further gasoline restriction. As people queued up to use Mexico City's crippled bus service (there were already block-long queues for kerosene, charcoal, corn), nervous politicos held their breath, wondered if the storm had dealt the country's groggy economic system a knockout punch...
MEXICO CITY--Three explosions, possibly set by saboteurs, sent flames racing through a Mexican tanker loading oil at Tampico today, killing at least four men and injuring 20, as this country awaited only a proclamation by President Avila Camacho to put it formally at war with the Axis...
Beyond the Caribbean the Axis carried the battle. While the President was speaking to the U.S., (see p. 9) an enemy submarine fired two dozen badly aimed shells at an oil refinery on California's coast. Mexico rushed extra troops to guard her oil port of Tampico. The Americas were fighting for their...