Word: laredo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Streets of Laredo (Paramount) spins a drawling Technicolored yarn about three Texas badmen who are buddies. Two of them (William Holden and William Bendix) eventually go straight and get jobs as Texas Rangers. The third, MacDonald Carey, goes right on rustling cattle and robbing banks. All three, in one way or another, get romantically entangled with a pale-lipped chit of a cowgirl (Mona Freeman) who takes a pretty nearsighted view of right & wrong...
...Wanna make a few hundred over the weekend, B,ud, driving a new Buick across the border?" If Bud did, and didn't mind smuggling, he got behind the wheel and purred south. At the border town of Laredo, a tourist card could be bought for $2.10. From Laredo south to Monterrey is only 146 miles over good roads, and at Monterrey a pickup would take the Buick, and sell...
Beginner. In Laredo, Tex., Ernesto Aripe, 12, jailed for pulling 17 burglaries in a week, escaped after robbing the jail storeroom of $875 and a sack of jewelry...
...have begun to share Tano Lucchese's enthusiasm. Each year, some 30,000 Mexicans come to San Antonio from across the border, some 130 miles away. Even more important than the millions they spend is San Antonio's position as the gateway to Mexico. Last year, the Laredo customs district handled $333,300,000 worth of U.S. exports most of which passed through San Antonio. San Antonians expect this to increase when the Pan American highway is finished. And they hope to establish a foreign-trade zone, similar to the custom-free zones at New York...
When P.H.S. "detectives" finally found Mrs. LeBar (she had flown on to Maine, and fortunately had been vaccinated), she had only a hazy notion of the bus's route, remembered that it had stopped at Laredo, Dallas, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh. Checking bus routes, the investigators figured that LeBar probably also stopped off at San Antonio, Tulsa, Joplin, Indianapolis...