Word: landia
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...poverty and lack of information. "Tawdry taco joints" are everywhere in Southern California. The comment about "ebullient oles and accurately hurled wine bottles" stretches literary license. The word cholo is pejorative and equivalent to "nigger," "kike" and other racial epithets. Pocho is also derogatory, and so are pachuco, gringo-landia, and agringado...
...world's biggest homebuilder, Long Island's Bill Levitt has been hard hit by the squeeze of credit restrictions and materials shortages. He had to cut his 1951 output of low-priced houses to 2,500, compared to 5,333 last year, and abandon altogether his "Landia" project for 1,750 homes in the $13,000 class. To get started again at the pace he and his brother Al need for their cost-cutting methods, Bill Levitt has been roaming the U.S. looking for a big, new site in a critical defense area. Last week he announced that...
...addition to these three main articles, the forthcoming number of the review will contain a department of notes and cases and a series of book reviews written by the members of the editorial board. The note editor is W. Barton Leach Jr. 31, the case editor if J McCauley Landia 21 and the book reviews are under the direction of Roger S Foxier...
...York electric railways Senator Reed of Missouri has been in Boston, between sessions of Congress, serving as counsel for District Attorney Pelletier. Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo resigned with the frank admission that he could not support his family on his salary from the government. Now come Hays and Landia, and rumor asserts that Secretary Hoover, too, is faced with similar temptation, in the form of a $50,000 offer from Philadelphia to direct the coming Exposition...
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