Word: acosta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lucky Joe. In the Rio Grande cotton country, the first bolls of the new crop were ripe and the annual "first bale" race was on. Near Me Allen, Tex., young (27) Joe Acosta directed the 150 pickers on the 1,600 acres he tenant-farms, while he kept in touch with the nearby cotton gin, checking on his rivals. When Acosta had enough, he rushed the cotton into town to be ginned, piled the 512-lb. bale aboard a pick-up truck and raced 350 miles to the Houston Cotton Exchange in 6½ hours. For bringing in the first...
...driving force behind the eye bank is a smartly dressed, sixtyish woman named Aida de Acosta Breckinridge. One day last week the telephone rang in her small office on the first floor of the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital. Mrs. Breckinridge answered briskly: "Oh, yes. A little baby's eyes are wonderful. We'll call for them tomorrow." Another Manhattan hospital had called to say that some parents had offered the corneas of their dead child so that another person might see. The Red Cross would handle the delivery to the eye bank. A telegram...
...Governments invited Costa Rica to join them in doing away with passports for travel between their countries, using a Central American travel card instead. Costa Rica accepted, and Julio Acosta, Minister of Foreign Relations, signed with the Salvadoreans and started for Guatemala City. On his way he read Arevalo's speech, decided that "half-baked" had been aimed at his country. He returned to Costa Rica, leaving the cause of Central American union about where it was. It was the sort of thing that always seemed to keep the five states from getting together...
...Bert Acosta, pioneer transatlantic flyer (1927), was hospitalized in Manhattan, with an abdominal abscess...
Diego Maria Conception Juan Nepo-muceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodriguez, 58, better known as Painter Diego Rivera, glorified revolution in his murals. Now he turns out rousing nudes for night-club walls, and full-length appreciations of Mexican society beauties. Through Excelsior's columnist Tibon, Rivera recently revealed an earlier devotion to women which was even more consuming...