Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those considered white, there was a special school at one of the labor camps. But last year, appalled by the labor camp's filth, the special school's teachers refused to work. The board had no alternative but to admit 30 Puerto Ricans and 55 children of Mexican ancestry to the regular public school for whites...
When production started near Silver City, N. Mex. (pop. 7,000), the townspeople rioted and warned the moviemakers to get out of town before they were shipped out "in black boxes" (TIME, March 16, 1953). Under police protection, Jarrico & Co. kept shooting until the leading lady, Mexican Actress Rosaura Revueltas, was deported as an illegal alien...
Salt of the Earth tells the story of a strike of Mexican-American zinc miners in New Mexico. The miners want the same pay as the "Anglos" who do the same jobs at other pitheads; and their wives want plumbing for the huts they live in on company property. The company refuses to negotiate, wins an injunction forbidding the miners to picket. They stop-and the women start. At this unexpected development, the police don't know quite what to do. First they try pushing. Then they use tear gas. The women cannot be moved...
...stretched his long legs in the lower-deck lounge of a New York-to-Nassau Stratocruiser last week and reflected with satisfaction on the progress of his newest enterprise. In his 73 years, Wenner-Gren has made fortunes in Electrolux vacuum cleaners and refrigerators, Bofors antiaircraft guns and Mexican telephones. But of late, his major interest has been building a fabulous tropical resort worthy of the monocled titles and Palm Beach socialites that Swedish-born Wenner-Gren (who started his career at 15? an hour in a New Jersey tractor factory) finds congenial...
...everybody acknowledged the overall speed of the Lancias, their tremendous acceleration, their cat-quick cornering ability. Last fall they swept from one end of Mexico to the other to finish 1-2-3 in the Mexican road race, with an average speed of 105.1 m.p.h. for the winning Lancia. What was in question was the Lancias' ability to survive a twelve-hour endurance test, without a chance for major repairs, over a 5.2-mile course, with tantalizingly brief straightaways and curves...