Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fleischman and wife Barbara lost no time in wading in, are now sopping up Mexican culture, have started buying Mexican art, and have struck up an acquaintance with Artist Rufino Tamayo. In his way, Collector Fleischman is proving to be almost as good propaganda as his collection. He will travel with it to nine other Latin American countries in the next 20 months...
...most distinguished artists, New Mexico's Peter Hurd. A LIFE correspondent during World War II, Hurd has painted on all five continents, but the people and scenes he likes best to portray are the ranch folk, the sun-blazed desert and the bare mountains near his New Mexican ranch (TIME color page, Mar. 3, 1952). His precise tempera paintings of the U.S. Southwest and its people are owned by such leading museums as New York City's Metropolitan, Kansas City's William Rockhill Nelson and the National Gallery in Edinburgh. For Hurd, a classical-music...
...economics and a longtime ringleader of the anti-U.S. faction in the Cabinet, has been scratching around for a good, sharp reprisal. He feared that if the U.S. went through with its plan to double exports (to 5,000,000 bales), the floor would fall from under the Mexican crop, which last year earned about $190 million, almost a third of the country's foreign credits. Last week, in a series of decrees, Loyo announced his countermeasures...
Beginning Nov. 1, the Mexican assembly plants of foreign auto firms will have to use Mexican cotton to pay for car and truck parts imported from their parent companies. To do business, the companies will have to make deals with a broker to try to sell Mexican cotton abroad. The companies then can import an equivalent value in car parts. Hard hit will be the U.S. Big Three-General Motors, Ford and Chrysler. If they manage to continue importing parts at the current rate (an estimated $60 million a year), the Big Three will have to market...
...Zinc Mineral Corp., uranium subsidiary of Texas Co. and New Jersey Zinc. Fletcher Bronson and family originally bought mine for $1,000 as copper prospect in 1946, once turned down $15 million for it. Texas-Zinc is mum on purchase price, but has already started building processing mill at Mexican Hat to handle ore from Happy Jack and other southeastern Utah mines...