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Word: mexicans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...light aircraft, there is no more pleasant flight than the 299-mile run from San Diego to Phoenix. Soaring high above the saffron badlands and khaki peaks that bake beneath a searing sun, skirting the Mexican border, a man can make it easily in four hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: A Desert Tale | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

Three weeks later, Sportsmen Clifford Shinn, John Baker and Emil Johnson were flying home to Los Angeles in Shinn's Piper Cub after a Mexican fishing trip. At a point 38 air miles south of the fishing village of San Felipe on Mexico's Gulf of California (190 miles south of the border), Shinn spotted a small plane on the desert. He landed near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: A Desert Tale | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

Star of the show was a postwar newcomer: the Porsche (pronounced Portia), a rear-engined car that looks like an inverted soup spoon. To its 16 models, selling from $2,995 to $6,000, Porsche last week added a new one, the Porsche Carrera, named after the Mexican road race which Porsche has dominated in the small sports-car division. The four-cylinder, 115 h.p. Carrera has a top speed of 125 m.p.h. and a price low enough ($4,297) to compete with the Jaguar and Lancia cars. Since its first Sportwagen was produced just six years ago, Porsche...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Sportwagen King | 10/17/1955 | See Source »

...MEXICAN NATURAL GAS will soon be supplied to U.S. markets in quantity for the first time. Pemex (Mexico's national oil and gas company) has signed a deal with Texas Eastern Transmission Corp. to export between 100 million and 200 million cu. ft. of methane gas daily from Reynosa, Mexico through pipelines to Eastern U.S. consumers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Oct. 10, 1955 | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

...story outline is familiar enough to newspaper readers: Angel Chavez, a teenage boy of Mexican descent, is on trial for the murder of a girl who died of a heart attack when Angel made a crude pass at her. Glenn Ford, as a young university law instructor who is out for trial experience, takes on the boy's case in association with a shrewd legal eagle played by Arthur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 3, 1955 | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

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