Word: indios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the pearl brings him no happiness, hurls it into the ocean. These doings involve a heady quota of drinking, amorous women, killings, gun-toting chases over desert and mountains. That the action is reasonably accurate as well as artistic is attributable to tall, broad-shouldered Director Emilio ("El Indio"-The Indian) Fernandez, who knows what he is shooting off his cameras about: he has been over much of that country himself...
Even by the rough & tumble standards of Mexican revolution, El Indio's life story is amazing. When his father left to join one of the revolutionary armies, Emilio, at nine, became head of the family. Practically at once he shot and killed a man for molesting his mother. Hustled into a reform school, he escaped and joined the revolution himself. He fought under General Carranza against Pancho Villa, was captured, sentenced to die at dawn and escaped from a drunken guard. Later he fought with Obregón against Carranza, then against Obregón for General...
...Near Indio, Calif., sheriff's deputies finally overtook a car they had chased across the desert, informed surprised Motorist F. H. Davison: "You left your wife and mother-in-law at the gas station 50 miles back...
...Kaiser expects to quote steel-hungry Pacific Coast industries new low steel prices, but steelmen will wait & see. The mine won't be in full production for at least six months, and even then ore will have to be trucked 50 miles to the Southern Pacific tracks at Indio...
...workers on the Government guayule rubber project at Indio, only 100 pounds of meat a week could be had: "The labor turnover is terrific because the men can't get enough to eat." > Said Packer Albert Luer Jr.: Southern Californians, under the current system, will be lucky to get 24 ounces of meat each per week...