Word: mexicanitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the wild banana trees in the hills of Veracruz state, oil crews last week spudded in the second well of the richest Mexican oil strike in more than 20 years. Near by, the discovery well, which gushed 19,000 bbl. a day until it was choked down, was producing 1,200 bbl. a day for the government-run oil company Pemex (Petroleos Mexicanos). Capping a series of earlier achievements, the new field signified that Pemex, after the years of fumbling that followed its formation in 1938 from expropriated U.S. and British oil companies, had finally found...
...fields and fear of expropriation caused the curtailment of new exploration. In 1938 only 38.5 million bbl. came out of the ground. The jubilation that greeted President Lazaro Cardenas' expropriation decree was hardly borne out by the prospects. Technicians fled. Outraged foreign companies organized a boycott against exported Mexican oil, persuaded equipment suppliers to refuse sales to Pemex. Soon Mexico was buying oil abroad...
...peaceful" Victorian Age encompassed the Mexican War, the Civil War and the Spanish-American War, found Britain embroiled in the Crimean War, the Opium War with China, the Indian Mutiny, the Afghan Wars and the beginning of the Boer...
...were trading tirades over the papers' longtime policy of charging broadcasters advertising space rates for running program listings. When Albuquerque radio and TV stations KOB and KGGM said they would no longer pay for the space, the papers-the Albuquerque Journal and evening Tribune, the Santa Fe New Mexican-dropped their listings. The TV stations countered by showering Albuquerque (pop. 175,500) with 165,000 free program logs, while the far-roving Denver Post snatched at local circulation by adding Albuquerque programs to its daily TV log. "These television stations are asking for the moon," protested the New Mexican...
...exhibits and ancillary cultural events. Included this year were competitive exhibits in architecture, painting, sculpture, drawing and graphic arts, plus several special invitational shows--a retrospective survey of the past hundred years of New England architecture, a national show of American painting and sculpture, and displays of Mexican and New England craftsmen in such fields as ceramics, jewelry, wood-turning and weaving (with periodic live demonstrations...