Word: bilbao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Linda Christian and Carlos Thompson are in Bilbao working on Thunderstorm...
...Spain, says Piero Saporiti, when a person offers you food or drink it is an insult to refuse. One day in the city of Bilbao, he met a Basque friend whose vice, was bragging about his native regional food. "Having eaten badly that week," says Saporiti, "I decided to test my friend. The conditions: he could introduce me to the most 'exquisite' dish of my career and if my palate agreed, I would pay the bill. We stopped at a restaurant where my friend whispered some hasty instructions to the waiter. Minutes later came wooden forks...
...more than 470 members in the Cortes, there were only 15 Communists. He also presents convincing evidence that Italy and Germany were in the scrap from the beginning. His documentation of the murder by Franco's men of 15 pro-Loyalist Basque priests after the fall of Bilbao is tragic proof that not all the outrages against the church in Spain were committed by the Reds. He also argues fairly effectively that the Loyalists turned to Communist Russia for aid only after being denied the right to buy arms from Britain, France and the U.S. Even so, he insists...
Jenaro Riestra. the civil governor of the Spanish port of Bilbao, was summoned to Madrid last week, there got orders to settle the strike that had cut back production at the Euskalduna works, one of his city's biggest steel plants (TIME, Dec.14). Though newspapers printed no word of the strike and mail from Bilbao was interrupted, the news of Bilbao's woe was spreading by word of mouth. Madrid wanted a settlement, quickly and in silence, before other Spanish workers decided to join...
...Bilbao. Governor Riestra got a welcome assist from the unpredictable Spanish climate. Heavy rains broke the months-old drought; hydroelectric stations started humming. Workers recently laid off went back to their jobs-but not at Euskalduna. The steel plant's blustering, belligerent manager, Elisardo Bilbao, an employer misplaced from the 19th century, posted a notice in the Plaza de la Misericordia. It said: all those who struck are fired...