Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hands. Troubled by the fact that his cotton plants had to be constantly hoed to keep them from being choked by wild grass, Stahmann built up a flock of 25,000 geese and found that they cleaned out the weeds just as well as Mexican hoe hands, who were hard to hire. Not only did the geese find their own food and enrich the soil with fertilizer, but when the cotton crop was harvested they could be sold. But they were not popular. Reason: high price...
...wide open spaces of the old West. After approximately an hour of gunplay, almost everyone is killed off, except the girl (Marie Windsor) and a strong, silent type (Lloyd Bridges), who have come to love each other. Of some interest to western fans may be the weird New Mexican rock formations that abound in the film...
...souped-up Chrysler engine that took fourth in the same race. Some small manufacturers, notably Britain's Allard Motor Co., built cars with Cadillac and Chrysler engines and many standard American parts and saw them lick the ears off finely tuned European sports cars. And in the last Mexican road race, Lincoln sedans came in one, two, three in the stock-car class...
Colors & Clothing. The son of a Mexican cattleman who lived in El Paso, Rivera himself learned no English until he was eight (he now speaks seven languages). He knows, better than most El Paso citizens, how formidably high is his city's language barrier, which splits the town into a Spanish-speaking (65%) v. an English-speaking (35%) community. Relatively few El Pasoans speak both. For example, in the city's Bowie High School, under Texas law, English is the official school language. But a large proportion of Bowie students, those of Mexican descent, rarely speak any English...
...unhappy career of marrying in haste, repenting in opulent leisure. Her husbands: 1) penniless Austrian Count Ludwig Constantin Salm (1924-27), 2) dashing Argentine Socialite Arturo Peralta Ramos (1927-35), 3) Manhattan Broker Ronald B. Balcom (1936-41). In later years, she Iived alone on a small New Mexican ranch in the shadow of a sacred Taos Indian mountain, wore blue jeans, sadly observed: "Dancing partners aren't what they used...