Word: mexico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...importance in Mexican politics was a grave pronouncement at Mexico City last week in which the Catholic Church reviewed and re-emphasized its abhorrence of what the Church defines as Socialism...
...Golden Gleam appeared in the U. S. in 1932. Neither a fancy cocktail nor a crack train, the Golden Gleam, a product of Mexico, was a double nasturtium, bearing ten petals to the ordinary blossom's five. Alert David Burpee of Philadelphia's W. Atlee Burpee Co. saw here a fine chance-if seized vigorously- to get ahead of his competitors. Sweet-scented but limited to its one glowing color, the Golden Gleam might be produced in various colors if crossbred with common nasturtiums...
...forestall such difficulties, he had carefully lined up the various permissions needed for the trip. In New Mexico he lad to pay $256 for license plates for three months. In Arizona he was stuck $582.99 for a year's plates. But California welcomed him with open arms, required only a month's registration fee. Finally, after $3,000 had been thus spent, all was ready. Garnished with $1,000 in travelers' checks, the 13 drivers set out with a 90,000-lb. payload guaranteed for delivery in Los Angeles in five days...
...first day, having hit a top of 35 m.p.h., the caravan trundled as far as Kansas City. Day later came La Junta, Colo. Then the trucks angled South, climbed over the steep Raton Pass into New Mexico, headed out over the barren Southwest. Rolling drearily along at an average of 22 m.p.h., the drivers worked in six-hour shifts, slept six hours in the small trailer. Only stops were for food, gas & oil, examination of permits at each state line. Ten hours were lost in such formalities. So smoothly did everything go that the caravan rolled into Los Angeles...
Three days later, crammed with a return load of oranges, automobile parts and general merchandise, the caravan headed back East by approximately the same route, this time aiming for Manhattan. Again all went without a hitch, except for an arrest in New Mexico for overloading, a 30-min. delay near Cleveland for a flat tire The caravan shouldered on through blizzards, finally waddled into Manhattan last week in seven days, beating its own schedule by 24 hours, the best railroad freight schedule by 72 hours...