Word: mexico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...written pledge by Cárdenas, as given out in Washington by the State Department: "Mexico will know how to honor its obligations of today and its obligations of yesterday...
...want to buy, below the world price of oil. And from this purchase the Mexican Government would get some of the quick cash it needs to keep going, make first compensation payments, and thus have a chance of getting the U. S. Treasury to resume the silver purchases from Mexico, canceled after the oil expropriation (TIME, April...
...which were working overtime year ago, were generally on part time. In Southern California the 13% slump was largely explained by dwindling cinema revenues. Rest of the far West was better off except for the cattle ranching States of Wyoming and Colorado, the mining areas of northern Arizona & New Mexico. Purely agricultural regions so far have felt the pinch very little. In Nebraska and Iowa trade was off a mere 1.8%. Farm prices have fallen somewhat, but with bumper crops to market farm income has held steady. In neighboring Kansas and Missouri trade was off about 8% because depression...
...young Californian named Carl Schmidt discovered the Fuerte in the patio of Señor Alejandro LeBlanc in Atlixco, Mexico. He sent a few buds back home, the middle classes of the U. S. began to hanker after avocados, and in 1934-35 there was a bumper crop of 20,000,000 pounds which brought in $600,000 to California avocado growers. But last year there was another Big Freeze, which went hard with avocados. Ordinarily, the avocado harvest lasts through the summer, but by last week this season's harvest was over...
...Journeys Between Wars, Dos Passos has taken selections from these two books, brought them up to date with a section on the civil war in Spain, and with the inclusion of accounts of trips to Mexico and Russia, made the book a unified volume of 394 pages covering his travels over 20 years. It is spattered with characteristic Dos Passos splashes of color, like his description of his first glimpse of Toledo: "Against the grey and ochrestreaked theatre of the Cigarrales were piled masses of buttressed wall that caught the orange sunset light on many tall plane surfaces rising into...