Search Details

Word: mexicans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...talking about a similar products line to be constructed next year from outside Philadelphia to Cleveland. In addition, Texas Eastern got FPC permission last year to spend $74.7 million on a 422-mile line south from near Beaumont, which will soon bring in the first major imports of Mexican gas from across the border. By such hustle, Texas Eastern (gross 1956 sales: $175.2 million) upped earnings per share last year to $2.05, believes that its 1,700-mile products line, added to gas lines totaling 5,800 miles, will boost share earnings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Growing by Inches | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

...right or he will lose the support of ex-President Lazaro Cardenas (1934-40), who expropriated foreign oil holdings and launched ambitious land reforms. They must not be too far left or he will not have the support of ex-President Miguel Aleman (1946-52), who guided Mexican politics back to the middle of the road. Membership in the current Cabinet is almost essential. Three men fit this mold well enough to qualify for the slang adjective of presidenciable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Front Runners | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

...administered shot of procaine, Ohmura snipped off the appendix, sutured the wound 50 minutes after he had made it. Home again and healthy a few days later, Ohmura had not proved that Japanese are more dexterous than Westerners (an American surgeon excised his own appendix in 1932 and a Mexican surgeon, from whom Ohmura got the idea, repeated the performance in 1946), but he had clearly demonstrated that they can be at least as eccentric. "I learned one thing," he reflected ruefully. "It really hurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Yank It Yourself | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

...Lode. Louise's luck was phenomenal. She got to the freewheeling West when her father, after serving in the Mexican War, settled in tiny Downieville, Calif., where his earnings went into worthless mining stocks. Louise, her mother and grandmother joined him after a journey of 5,000 miles by boat and muleback. At 16, pretty, dark-haired Louise made a disastrous marriage to a local doctor who was as calamitous a speculator as her father. When he was found dying at Poverty Hill, Calif., riddled by drugs and alcohol, 22-year-old Louise was left penniless with a crippled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Making the Riffle | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

Cambridge police have arraigned a University senior on charges of possession of a Mexican drug, peyote, the Boston Daily Record reported last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Seize Student For Drug Charge | 5/16/1957 | See Source »

Previous | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | Next