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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Abelardo Rodriguez Market, covering four blocks of Mexico City's slum section, was finished last year and named for Mexico's immensely wealthy President Rodriguez. Besides being one of the world's largest markets, it is a community recreation centre for the city's poor. The area assigned to the nine muralists was 16,000 sq. ft., about 1,800 sq. ft. apiece, to be covered by the end of 1935. Each was permitted to pick his own theme, subject to esthetic supervision by Diego Rivera, topical supervision by the Federal Government's Civic Action...
...35th International Christian Endeavor convention, certain youthful Pennsylvanians wore Liberty Bell contraptions labeled, HELLO I'M GLAD TO SEE YOU. At Convention Hall 12,000 young people, aged from 16 to 27, paid $2 registration fees. Claiming thaT 40,000 attended some sessions, officials inaccurately called it "the largest youth gathering in the history of North America." Apparently they had forgotten that in 1895 a rousing Christian Endeavor convention in Boston drew 56,425 delegates...
...Seattle workshop for all the world to see was trundled last week the hulk of the largest and most deadly airplane ever built in the U. S. Boeing Aircraft Co., after a year of secret construction, had finally assembled the giant four-motored bomber which it had manufactured for the U. S. Army under the contract name...
TEMPEST OVER MEXICO?Rosa E. King ?Little, Brown ($3). Stilted but interesting reminiscences of the Zapata revolution, written by an Englishwoman who owned the largest hotel in Cuernavaca...
...sharp, lean, hustling promoter is J. Edward Jones, 41, world's largest dealer in oil royalties. He worked his way through the University of Kansas as a soda jerker, now lives swankily in Scarsdale, N. Y. The intervening years were largely spent in initiating the public into the mysteries of oil royalties. When a landowner leases mineral rights, he retains the right to the royalties-generally one barrel out of every eight. Because he and his clients receive one-eighth of production irrespective of the price of oil, Mr. Jones does not look kindly upon any effort to limit...