Word: mexico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chief points $3,000,000,000 annually for defense world's biggest air force; compulsury military service; the U.S. to take over Canada and Mexico...
...Sold 3,000,000 bushels of wheat to Mexico under the export subsidy plan, Mexico will pay for the wheat with proceeds of its export tax on the silver its mines sell to the U.S. The U.S. Government thus pays the Mexican piper both ways-taking one loss by selling the wheat at less than the market price, taking another by buying the silver at an artificially pegged price...
Stabilization of oil was first attempted under NRA. When that went under, the job of issuing production quotas was assumed by prorate boards in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Illinois, New Mexico, cooperating through an Interstate Oil Compact Commission specially authorized by Congress. This six-State body has no regulatory or price-fixing powers, can act only as a clearinghouse between the various State regulatory boards. That it has been successful is attested both by the present small crude oil inventories and by the Commission's voting three weeks ago to ask Congress to extend it another two years...
...should be high, dry, nearly dustless, nearly hazeless. The Smithsonian Institution has two solar outposts at Table Mountain in California and Mt. Montezuma in Chile. Last week the Smithsonian announced that it would start a new solar observatory atop Burro Mountain, an 8,000-ft. peak in southwestern New Mexico, with Observer Alfred F. Moore in charge. The annual rainfall of ten inches is almost all concentrated in July, August and September, leaving nine months of superb observation weather...
Married. Martha Raye (real name: Marjorie Yvonne Reed), 22, trumpetvoiced cinema comedienne; and David Rose, 29-year-old composer; in Mexico. Miss Raye's divorce from Hollywood Make-up Artist Hamilton ("Buddy") Westmore became final last month...