Word: mexico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year ending June 1937, U. S. exports to Mexico totaled $94,000,000 as against $68,000,000 for the previous twelve months. This made the second biggest U. S. neighbor the sixth best U. S. customer. Last week this healthy trade was endangered by a new form of taxation devised by Mexico...
...States include ten in the Middle West where experiments with Prize Fellowships had already been conducted, and the five new States of Louisiana, New Mexico, California, Oregon, and Washington...
...depended largely on his speed, because the time limit for doing any section of wall before the plaster gets too dry to absorb colors has never been more than 24 hours. Artists familiar with centuries of failures to extend this limit were electrified last week at a report from Mexico City that a way had been discovered to keep plaster fresh for nearly two-and-one-half days...
While studying under Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera, Manhattan Artist Elizabeth Ely de Vescovi Whitman met a Mexican chemist, Gonzalez de la Vega, founder of the faculty of chemical sciences at the University of Mexico, who shared her interest in experiments at keeping frescoes fresh. First sign of success in their collaboration came when they used a spray of glycerine, lime, marble dust and water. But no matter how little glycerine they used it would appear later in small beads on the surface of the plaster. Then they tried butyl alcohol (butanol) with the same ingredients. This worked, but made...
...stories about the occult powers of the Indians, she became so excited by her first glimpse of the Southwest that she got off the train and hired a rattletrap automobile to speed her arrival. "Holy! Holy! Holy! Lord God Almighty! ... I am Here," she announced to the "mythical" New Mexico landscape. Soon tired of Santa Fe, where the people were "too eager and cordial" ('"Why," she said, "should they be so glad to see me?"), she found in the village of Taos, 75 mi. from Santa Fe, what she was looking for. She rented the wing...