Word: mexico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...underparts of Mexico...
...Government bookkeeping), which is half what is required to bring silver stocks to the 1-to-3 ratio with gold. At the present rate of acquisition, that proportion should be reached in less than three years. Meantime the Treasury is, on a small scale, trading gold for silver with Mexico, tending to bring that proportion nearer still. Boosting the price to domestic producers indicates that the Treasury intends to continue buying silver and forcing up the world price...
...Oklahoma a hundred families fled their homes. Every school in Baca County, Colo, was closed. In Texas the windswept hayfields were alive with blinded sparrows. Methodist congregations in Guymon, Okla. met three times a day to pray for rain._ Originally confined to a 200-mile strip between Canada and Mexico, last week's dust storm suddenly swirled eastward over Missouri, Iowa and Arkansas, crossed the Mississippi to unload on Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee and Louisiana. With half the nation blanketed in silt, farmers everywhere were asking what was going to happen to the wheat crop...
...high valuation on the knowledge of Latin, Mr. Markham advocates making the Latin requirement optional and placing more importance on the modern languages. Pointing out that English serves as an international language in most continental affairs, he stressed the need for a knowledge of Spanish: "It is in Mexico and South America that our bread is buttered...
...themselves of two dollars and fifty cents' worth of as exciting and diverting relaxation as they are likely to find in contemporary literature. "Riding the Mustang Trail," the narrative of a four-hundred-mile "trail drive" of a large herd of wild mustangs from the Mescalero country of New Mexico to a shipping point in Cimarron County, Oklahoma, is a saga proving beyond all doubt that there still is a West, in the realest sense of the term, that it is still full of pitfalls, even to its most hardened inhabitants, and that for the uninitiated it is as full...