Word: mexico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...potent sporting magazine which his father had founded in 1898. Editor McGuire took seriously his job of running a publication, increased circulation to 139,603, made $50,000 in good years. In line of duty he formed a Bear Protection Society, went deep-sea fishing in the Gulf of Mexico with the president of the University of Minnesota and, while intoxicated in Mexico, shot the sixth largest antelope ever bagged...
...from their mid-morning siesta by the noise of an airplane. Looking up, they spied an old trimotored Ford belonging to Compania Mexicana de Aviación, a subsidiary of Pan American Airways Chartered half an hour before by Hamburg-American Line, the plane was chugging its way from Mexico City to Guatemala. The courteous Mexican pilot had detoured from the regular course because he wished to show his country's most celebrated peaks to Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe, who renounced the throne of a tiny Teutonic principality in 1918; his wife; Baron Siegmund von Stieber; seven other...
Shocked when New Mexico's Bronson Cutting died in an airplane crash in Missouri, the Senate two months ago made the Federal Bureau of Air Commerce squirm by conducting an investigation during which it was charged that the Bureau's aids to flight were "dangerously inadequate" (TIME. Feb. 24). Last week the Bureau of Air Commerce delivered its rebuttal, a vote of confidence from more than 1,000 U. S. transport pilots...
...southwest from New England to Alabama. When early U. S. settlers pushed out from the coast into this rugged region, they built their towns, for purposes of commerce, on the narrow-valleyed rivers which flow east from the Appalachian slopes into the Atlantic, west into the Gulf of Mexico or Great Lakes. Power from these rivers helped make the northern Highlands the great manufacturing region of the U. S., where dwell 28% of the nation's population in 5% of its area. But in many & many a spring the friendly rivers have turned into roaring engines of destruction, wiped...
...story of 1836 was the revolt of Texas against Mexico. Tale of the Alamo made tragic news in the U. S. in early March. "The battle was desperate until daylight," reported the New Orleans True American, "when only seven men belonging to the Texan garrison were found alive, who cried for quarter, but were told that there was none for them. They then continued fighting until the whole were butchered. . . . We regret to say that Colonel David Crockett was among the number slain...