Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crop-dusting, hazardous when performed with low-flying, fixed-wing aircraft, is as safe as surrey-riding when done with helicopters. The owner of a big Texas pecan grove no longer sends Mexican laborers clambering into his trees?he simply flies a helicopter over the grove when the nuts get ripe, and the rotor blows the crop to the ground before lunchtime on harvest day. The whirlybird is proving a heaven-sent device for motion-picture directors; a camera fixed in a helicopter can hang motionless high in the sky over battle scenes, or follow the U.S. Cavalry...
Since the first herd of Charolais cattle arrived in Mexico from France more than 20 years ago, U.S. cowmen have hankered after the deep-chested, creamy-white animals. There were formidable obstacles to getting them: the only big Mexican breeder of Charolais refused to sell more than a few at a time, the Mexican government was determined to keep its herd south of the border, and the U.S. was closed to both French and Mexican cattle because of the virulent foot-and-mouth disease.The U.S. Agriculture Department even refused to allow shipment of frozen Charolais semen into the country. Last...
...fattens with spectacular rapidity. At one time Broussard planned to buy an island off Alaska and keep the Charolais in quarantine there for a while. The Agriculture Department turned down the idea, but Broussard was not discouraged. He made an enticing offer to devout Henri Gilly, owner of the Mexican herd: if Gilly would sell him the cattle, Broussard would donate income from them to Christian charities. In June 1952, Gilly agreed, for $500,000. That left only the problem of getting the Charolais into...
...Mexican government, by presidential decree, said no. The U.S., although its border was open to most Mexican cattle from September 1952 to May 1953, refused to let the Charolais in because they came from a tick-infested area. So early this year, without a by-your-leave from anyone, Gilly walked the herd across the drought-dried Rio Grande, and Broussard took them by truck to Louisiana...
...legend, tapping out tunes,for arrangers to orchestrate, keeping up his floor show at the Capri nightclub and his Lírico revues. His soft piano-playing in a darkened room with a single soft light playing on his pinched face is still the most irresistible thing in Mexican entertainment. The royalties roll in, and he spends them expertly...