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...remote, jungle-hemmed beach of Tortuguero, south of Veracruz, a handful of Mexican and U.S. oil drillers slapped each other's backs and shouted with hoarse joy. A few weeks ago, boring at an angle to a depth of 6,000 feet under the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, their rig had tapped a pool of rich green-black petroleum. Last week Tortuguero No. 1 surged into test production at a steady 500 barrels...
...Mexican American Independent Oil Co. (C.I.M.A.), an operating unit jointly set up by the Signal Oil & Gas Co., the American Independent Oil Co. and hustling California Oilman Ed Pauley, who had had previous experience in Mexico. C.I.M.A. was allotted an unexploited area along the Gulf in the states of Veracruz, Tabasco and Campeche for exploration and drilling. After payment of their expenses, the Americans will collect 15 to 18¼% of the new wells' income for 25 years. C.I.M.A. hoped to bring in a gusher in Campeche before the end of January, expected to start drilling on Tortuguero...
...they all stared fascinated at the table where the two men sat, meal after meal, fighting it out with high words and bitter tears. Finally the two asked for separate tables and Rivera, shaken by the fury of the quarrel, took to his bunk. Says Siqueiros, "When we reached Veracruz there were two delegations at the pier. One was composed of Rivera's friends, and they took him to Mexico City in style. The other was a delegation of police, and they took me to jail...
...marshes near Newburyport, Mass. to work on a new novel. At Santa Monica, Calif., KATHERINE ANNE PORTER had finished two-thirds of No Safe Harbor, a parable on fascism based on a diary she kept of a boat trip in 1931 from Veracruz to Bremerhaven...
Some of the projects on Orive Alba's calendar are called Mexican TVAs. One will dam the picturesque Papaloapan River near Veracruz, another will use the waters of the Rio del Fuerte, near the Gulf of California, in northwest Mexico. A third project: a joint U.S.-Mexican scheme to use waters from the Rio Bravo (Rio Grande) to irrigate 500,000 acres on each side of the river and generate 200 million kilowatts for joint use. Of the three dams to be built, the first alone will cost more than $35,000,000, of which the U.S. will...