Word: alem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Near Ain Alem, Reporter Karnow found a farm couple leaving, after having spent a night fighting off rebel attacks. He found other colons confused and bitter. They blamed Paris, Cairo, Moscow, Washington. But they dared work their fields only when covered by troops, and there were not enough troops...
...Mexican army team, which in the last eight years has won more jumping contests than anyone else, was not in this one: ex-President Miguel Alemán, who established the trophy, asked that no Mexicans take part, "in the interests of international good will." The excitement, came from the Germans, who had not been in a U.S. show since before...
Such actions might have been laughed off by the Alemánistas as mere grandstand plays or as signs of the new President's personal eccentricities. But Ruiz Cortines soon showed that he was out to clean up government from top to bottom. He abruptly ordered all treasury payments stopped while government contracts were reexamined. His Communications Minister reported getting a bill for one 75-mile highway that had been registered as completed and even marked on some maps. Yet, on a flight over the area, he could find no trace of the road. Ruiz Cortines called...
...with Monopolies. To Mexicans' amazement, awe and admiration, Ruiz Cortines sailed into the "monopolists," i.e., Alemán pals who got strangleholds on many business activities. In March he struck hard to smash the monopoly of Mexico City oil distribution, held by pistol-packing Multimillionaire Jorge Pas-quel of Mexican-baseball-league fame. Then, in succession, he expertly dethroned Transport King Antonio Díaz Lombardo, who had made $40 million as boss of the bus lines and head of Alemán's lucrative Social Security Department, and loosened the grip of Multimillionaire Aaron Saenz on Mexico...
...Land. Out of the Mexican revolution has come both a vigorous new middle class, where nothing like it existed before, and a new rich to take the place of the oldtime aristocracy. Domestic tranquillity, world war and the Alemán era of growth and expansion gave great impetus to the process. The very country has changed and matured, a fact that helps account for the rise of such a leader as Adolfo Ruiz Cortines...