Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Palmer's project was to provide free long-playing records of Mexican classics, concerts, songs and stories by professional artists, and a series of Mexican travelogues "so that the blind can appreciate the beauties they can never see." The project got off to a smooth start, well-known entertainers offered their services free, a U.S. recording company said it would make the recordings at cost. A campaign was started for public contributions to pay for playing equipment and making the records. But suddenly, as TIME'S story explained, there was an urgent reason to complete the fund-raising...
...decided to make a virtue of the museum's poverty. Treating the museum primarily as an exhibition center, she filled the empty walls with more than 100 shows a year, kept up the busy pace until museumgoers were deluged with modern art. When a wave of enthusiasm for Mexican painting started after Diego Rivera painted his murals for the San Francisco Stock Exchange, Director Morley obtained Rivera's preliminary designs for the murals to start what is today an outstanding U.S. collection of modern Mexican and South American painting...
...Brady-Lawrence, 58, Ashton, 56, and William, 54-who have become wealthy by a combination of brainy prospecting and luck. They found the sulphur, and now own Gulf Sulphur Corp., plus an exploration outfit called Amican Sulphur Co., S.A., and have sizeable stock interests in both Pan American and Mexican Gulf Sulphur. Working as a team, brothers Lawrence and Bill run the administrative end; Ashton is the geologist...
...Brady brothers, who have worked on and off as contract drillers for oil companies, got their first hint of Mexican sulphur 15 years ago when Ashton picked up a 1904 Shell Oil Co. exploration report. It told of salt domes on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, a geological formation that often indicates sulphur. It took six years before they could prove their hunch. Starting to drill near San Cristóbal in 1942, they were slowed down by the war, by an unfriendly and suspicious local population, even by the malaria-filled jungle itself, where torrential rains turn everything into...
...Penthouse. Since then, the Bradys have found sulphur in still a third area, Salinas, and formed their own Gulf Sulphur Corp. They get the same profitable deal the Mexican government has made with the other companies: a 20-year agreement under which they pay production royalties of between 4% and 15%, plus an export tax ranging...