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...have enough bodies to go around if people get injured every time a controversial bill comes up," said Yu-taro Takeyama, head of the government party's strategy committee. "We will just have to appoint stronger men to committee chairmanships, men who won't get put out of action every time the going gets rough...
...1940s Jenkins was in a position to swallow an entire $5,000,000 issue of bonds by the Mexican government's holding corporation, Nacíonal Financiera, without apparent strain. When a projected four-lane highway from Mexico City to Querétaro lagged for lack of funds, Jenkins lent the contractors $25.6 million to finish the job, while at the same time offering the government $80 million to help finance a new superhighway from Puebla to Mexico City. Among his reported holdings today: the Bank of Commerce, textile mills, cement plants, an automobile assembly plant, finance companies...
...brought the company near bankruptcy. An eleven-day fire in its offshore platform had cost the cash-short firm $780,000. and stockholders had refused to ante up any more capital. Now, flushed with the glow of sudden prosperity and the promise of Japanese government help, Arabian Oil President Taro Yamashita plans to sink 42 more wells in the next four years, expects to spend an additional $167 million to supply Japan with a third of its 240-million-barrel annual petroleum requirement...
...Adolfo LÓpez Mateos with editorials boasting of triumphs in every field, the President's own modesty and conservatism showed through. Just before climbing into a bus for a trip north to dedicate some typically modest public works (one road and one school) in Querétaro State, LÓpez Mateos declared simply: "The period of adjustment is behind...
Last week, fielding questions from textile workers in Querétaro, LÓpez Mateos handled one of Mexico's hottest issues: religion. Countering the violently anticlerical traditions of the Mexican revolution, he promised "absolute freedom of belief" and told a Roman Catholic worker that his convictions "should remain invariable, letting neither time nor intrigue shadow them...