Word: hacienda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their stately, rambling hacienda house, ringed by a 15-foot brick-and-adobe wall, servants rush out at the toot of a horn to open the wide iron-plate gates. Peacocks strut in the shade of the garden's lemon and eucalyptus trees, and dark-suited waiters move through the great halls inside, passing golden glasses of fine manzanilla sherry from Spain and serving tortillas on the end of a knife blade. La Punta can accommodate 30 guests with all the comforts of a metropolitan hotel...
...sometimes regarded by the oldtimers as false to his class. After flying for France in World War I, he came home, served as secretary to revolutionary President Alvaro Obregon, became one of Mexico's best engineers. Now he often gives parties on the family's half-ruined hacienda at Yautepec. and sometimes makes old family friends squirm by assuring them that Mexico's progress began when the great haciendas were destroyed...
...ranch house at the Santa Gertrudis Ranch, the headquarters of the four divisions that make up the King Ranch. His house is no palace. Compared to the luxury of the swimming pool, the ten-car garage and the $350,000 towered and turreted main house of the Santa Gertrudis hacienda, the Kleberg's home is tiny (seven rooms). For privacy's sake they prefer it to the enormous main house, which they use as a guest house...
...that he was ready to start work on one of the cooperative farm colonies organized by the Government in the fertile interior to grow corn, potatoes, beans, rice, coffee, tobacco. An Italian with a shy little wife and black-eyed little girl was to go to a privately owned hacienda in Carabobo. Another, a bank clerk in Italy, had a job as a hotel waiter. Said he: "You have to start somewhere...
...many Latin countries, cheap food would save the day. But half the land lies idle, much of it in the grip of the feudal hacienda-owners. And though nearly half the population lives and works on the land, the country imports huge quantities of food...