Word: aparicio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Madrid a few days before the strike, a newspaper called Voz Social, published by Juan Aparicio López, Falangist editor of the official trade-union organ, Pueblo, made its first (and probably its last) appearance. It violently attacked social and economic conditions under the banner heading: "Clothing, shelter and homes can wait-but food cannot." The Voz Social editorial pointed out that through the offices of ministerial employees, it was a simple matter for black marketeers to obtain import licenses for splendid American convertibles, while farmers were unable to get licenses for tractors; that the building of hospitals...
...when the second car got to the finish line before the first even started. Several boys whose cars had smashed apart crossed the finish line on foot, running with car wheels and bodies tucked under their arms. To the chagrin of the boys, a girl won. She was Amelia Aparicio, 13, who had averaged 19 miles an hour in a car designed by her mechanic father. Exclaimed Amelia: "I came determined to win for the Bolivian woman...