Word: mexicanized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...factory. On the other side, the Amalgamated was eager to organize Farah Manufacturing as an opening wedge to crack the dozens of clothing manufacturers in the Southwest that bask in a non-union atmosphere. Union organizers were able to capitalize on a genuine labor grievance. Farah's mostly Mexican-American workers complained that they were held to unreasonable production quotas that often forced them to cut short their lunch hours and skip rest-room breaks. The battle was joined in May 1972, when Farah dismissed six workers, allegedly for union-organizing activities. About 2,000 Farah workers walked...
...distilled in a pressure cooker, the crew reached Capetown so weak that it took twelve men to lower and stow the big, billowy spinnaker. Between Capetown and Sydney the skipper of a French yawl and a British crewman on an Italian vessel were lost overboard in storms, and a Mexican boat suffered a knockdown. A British sailor drowned east of Sydney when he lost his footing and fell into the frigid ocean...
...forties" justified their ill repute. Italy's Tauranga lost a crewman to the angry sea, and Dominique Guillet, captain of the French yawl 33 Export, was tossed overboard and lost when his safety harness snapped during a squall. Then came the terrifying moment when heavy seas rolled the Mexican ketch Sayula II so far her masts were deep under water. "There was no warning," recalls Crewman Keith Lorence. "Suddenly there was a big crash and the lights went out. She righted herself in seconds, but she must have rolled at least 160 degrees." Half of the twelve-member crew...
...prove that Hearst could afford such demands, Cinque rattled off a long list of Hearst family holdings worth "hundreds of millions of dollars," from Mexican silver mines to IBM stock. No matter that the vast majority of the holdings belong to the foundation, since that is merely "a tax loophole," he said. Even the family's objets d'art were not exempt from S.L.A. attention: among other things, Hearst owned "24 Greek vases valued at $10,000 each" plus "a collection of Oriental rugs given to him by his personal friend the Shah of Iran." The kidnapers...
Even American citizens are joining the rush. They cannot yet legally buy gold bars, but they have always been permitted to own gold coins. Sales of British sovereigns, Mexican 50-peso coins and good old double eagles (U.S. $20 gold pieces) are booming. In the past two weeks alone, double eagles traded in New York have gone from $200 apiece to nearly...