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...over, and that now Mexicans have a job of modernization to do. Aléman agrees with such old revolutionists as ex-President Lazaro Cardenas that the basis of national prosperity lies in a prosperous countryside. But he argues further that people cannot have the good things of life till they have produced enough of them. That means that Mexico must make better use of its land. It also means that Mexico must get in step with the modern world by industrializing itself...
Since 1911, when Emiliano Zapata raised the historic cry of tierra y libertad (land and liberty), more than 47% of Mexico's crop lands have been divided among the peasants under the ejido system. Each head of a family receives the right to till some 40 acres owned not by himself, but by the community. Seven years after Cardenas, this socialistic system seems to work reasonably well, at least in the great collective farms of the Laguna and the rich plots of the Yaqui valley. But there is not enough land. Half a million people are still after ejido...
Hope of Salvation? The U.S. airlines had gone through their own postwar hell. Some of the burning was due to their own sins. They had sometimes seemed to run their lines, not like globe-straddling enterprisers, but like cow-pasture barnstormers. They had canceled flights without telling passengers till they appeared at the airport; they had lost their luggage; when bad weather closed in, they had set passengers down in out-of-the-way airports and left them to shift for themselves. The winter weather had been terrible. In one grim period in December, so had the plane crashes. Many...
...airline make an improvement; competition will force the rest to follow. He was the first to start installation of I.L.S. equipment on his planes. (The new DC-6s are I.L.S.-equipped.) Other major U.S. lines have already followed. They will not be able to use it for months, till I.L.S. ground equipment is installed in enough airports. But when it is, the lines will be ready to use it. If everyone sweats enough, and the new planes and safety devices work as well as expected, Pat Patterson expects that air travel will be as regular and safe as train travel...
...counteracted this somewhat by raising its prices from $25 to $69 a car. And U.S. Steel's Benjamin Fairless, who has been under most pressure to reduce prices, went out of his way to deny that Big Steel had any intention of reducing prices now. Not till current bargaining with C.I.O.'s United Steelworkers is over, said he, could Big Steel think of any price changes. Chrysler, which is currently bargaining with C.I.O.'s U.A.W., apparently thought that its increasing production would permit...