Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rest of the hour-and-a-half show never strayed too far from the routine (with one exception), although it continued to jump from East to West Coast and up to Canada for a scene from Julius Caesar at the Stratford Festival. The exception was Cantinflas, the famed Mexican comic, fighting a small (700-lb.) bull in a Tijuana bullring. Cantinflas came out wearing a crushed, narrow-brimmed fedora and pants that hovered uncertainly halfway down his hips. The bull took one look at him and seemed frankly baffled. The band struck up a rumba, and Cantinflas, stomping his feet...
...Mexican Light & Power (incorporated in Canada) supplied the industrial area around Mexico City with 2.1 billion kw-h yearly; U.S.-controlled American & Foreign Power Co. generated 1 billion kw-h for eleven outlying states; the government fed 1.5 billion kw-h into distributing companies. But the power plants could barely keep up with rising consumer demand, and industrial power was short...
...dividends-or no dividends-killed sales of stock in the U.S. and elsewhere. And Mexican investors showed no interest. Lacking new capital, the companies could not keep up with consumer demand, even when they plowed back profits and got bank loans...
Rising Rates. Now that the Mexican government has had a change of heart toward utilities, some of the results are already in. Mexican Light, given a 21% rate rise and promised another increase later, paid its first common-stock dividends in 41 years. Last week it confidently put $2,000,000 worth of securities on the market; the company expects eventually to attract enough private capital-together with public loans and earnings-to finance a $200 million, ten-year expansion plan. American & Foreign Power, promised a rate increase soon, plans a $40 million, five-year building program, using public...
...stage, the individualistic H. D. C. barely managed to present "Fiesta," a play about Mexican peon life, without being banned by the City censors who claimed the show was "crude and immoral." A smash hit at the box office, "Fiesta" included F. K. Smith '30, G. W. Harrington '30, H. G. Meyer '30, P. S. Davis '30, and R. R. Wallstein '30 in its cast...