Word: antonios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...done to get new investors. After a slow start, the idea has brought 10,885 new accounts to brokers. By spending $45,000 on advertising, Merrill Lynch grabbed off 40% of the new investors (4,411 accounts), now sees a booming market in such areas as San Antonio, Omaha, Indianapolis and Detroit. One small company opened five accounts at the maximum monthly sum of $999 because it found the plan an excellent way to bank surplus funds and collect attractive dividends; another investor opened a $40-a-month account because he said he threw away that much money each month...
Durable Cinemactress Joan Crawford hopped off a train in Manhattan, allowed that the weather was colder than it was in home town San Antonio, where she had dropped off for a visit, then rushed away to have "a little fun in New York...
...perfect timing with a bronco," says Bill Linderman, 33, the champion All-Around Cowboy of the U.S., "it's no more strain than rowing a boat." Before keen-eyed rodeo fans in San Antonio last week, Champion Linderman gave a demonstration...
...cowboy championship title by spending eleven months or so last year on a 75,000-mile rodeo-circuit tour and winning more prize money ($33,674) than any other rodeo man in the combined events: saddle bronc riding, steer wrestling, bareback riding and calf roping. The San Antonio rodeo was Linderman's fifth of the young 1954 season, after performances at Denver, Fort Worth, Houston and El Paso. This week he pushes to Baton Rouge. His prize money for the year so far: more than...
Born on the border at Brownsville, Holland learned Spanish as a boy from Mexican-American playmates, took his law degree from the University of Texas and practiced in San Antonio until 1942. Then he joined the Foreign Service Auxiliary in the Mexico City embassy, serving as a special assistant to Ambassador George Messersmith. Among his tasks: blacklisting firms dealing with Axis countries. In 1945 he joined B.B.A. & S. in Houston and established the firm's Mexican affiliate, which now employs 16 bilingual lawyers mainly concerned with setting up and financing mining, farming, insurance, import-export, banking and oil companies...