Word: latin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...things, but not of the mysterious author B. Traven, the secret of whose identity had baffled a generation of admirers-including his publishers. Traven's books-sea, stories and Mexican adventure novels laced with bitter comments on the futility of modern man-have had a tremendous following in Latin America and in Europe. In the U.S. he was virtually unknown until his Treasure of the Sierra Madre was made into a splendid movie...
...ahead, though this time the main conspirator looked more like Fanny Farmer than Cassius. She is a serious Midwestern schoolmarm, with a bent for poetry, baking cakes, and puttering in a garden. But if Miss Lenore Geweke (pronounced gave-a-key) has her way-and she well might-Latin beginners all over the U.S. will no longer fight their way through Caesar's trim, tight prose...
Mexico faced the situation which has already begun to confront most Latin American countries...
...difficult steps that are required, i.e., balance its budget, tighten credit, soak up idle money by higher taxes. If the government can do this, a new and sounder peso-at perhaps six or seven to the dollar-may be established. If so, Mexico may be one of the first Latin American nations to wring the water out of its economy and get down to sound living...
...Latin America...