Word: laredo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Laredo...
Almost three centuries later, after a railway from Laredo, 160 miles north in Texas, had reached and roused the sleepy town, a brewery started in Monterrey, using the sparkling water to make the beer that most Mexicans now drink, many Americans import, and some connoisseurs call the world's finest...
...TIME'S correspondents in 139 cities - the centers of every area in the U.S. - reported on it. In all the U.S. there were only half a dozen cities in which the shortage was not acute. The lucky six: Boise, Idaho; Tallahassee, Fla. ; Douglas, Ariz.; Austin, Corpus Christi and Laredo, Texas...
Back in the U.S., he cut loose with a Jan Valtin horror story of Mexican beisbol. Mickey recalled the first time he saw Mexico City's Nuevo Laredo Park. At first he wondered why it looked so familiar; then he realized he had seen it before in nightmares, bumpy infield, wobbly stands and all. "If some of those Mexican henchmen didn't think you were hustling to their satisfaction," said Mickey, "they'd sidle up to you and stick a gun in your ribs. . . . It just scared the hell out of me." To hear Mickey tell...
Died. Federico Laredo Bru, 71, one-time (1936-40) frontman President of Cuba for his boss and successor, Colonel Fulgencio Batista; in Havana...