Word: ciudad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guadalupe, long ago, a peon named Juan Diego beheld a miraculous vision of the Virgin. Near that spot last week, a visionary Mexican industrialist, Antonio Ruiz Galindo, was starting an experiment that may likewise prove miraculous: a factory community, La Ciudad Industrial (the Industrial City). Mexican leaders and U.S. businessmen interested in Mexico are watching closely...
...Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, and at Nogales on the Arizona line...
Spain's Nazi-loving Dictator Francisco Franco took a tighter grip on his war-scarred country last week. Before El Caudillo in Madrid's El Prado Palace stood four Roman Catholic prelates, the Bishops of Barcelona, Ciudad Real, Jaén and Salamanca. They were there to do what none of their predecessors had done since medieval days: take an oath of fealty to the head of the Spanish State...
Camacho gave Pagliai not only a license for pari-mutuel gambling but also a ten-year renewable concession on 180 acres of Government property 15 minutes from the heart of Mexico City. In return, Pagliai's Jockey Club de la Ciudad de Mexico, operators of the track, promised the Mexican Army ten thoroughbreds every year there is racing at the Hipódromo de las Américas...
...rubber out of the dense forests of the Orinoco valley. For this he will use a new version of Higgins' famed Eureka boat especially built for jungle rivers. Already he has 25 of these boats ready to go. They will cut down the time from Puerto Ayacucho to Ciudad Bolivar from a hazardous ten days by canoe to 24 hours by Eureka-and carry a hundred times as much each trip...