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Word: muchas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hundreds of U.S. and European employees of the oil companies were herded protectively into company compounds, but it was hard to say what they were being protected from. "Mucha música pero poca ópera," said a grizzled engineer, quoting the old Nicaraguan proverb: Lots of noise but little action. Although most of the $125 million worth of oil installations had been prudently shut down several days before the invasion, one U.S. contracting company, disregarding the war, kept right at work on a road and pipeline linking the oilfields with the seacoast. Caltex announced that, with government permission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: Island War | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

Ingram's salesmen sold caps with more than 25,000 different inscriptions; production rose from 240,000 caps in 1932 to more than 42 million in 1955. Caps with Arabic lettering went to a milk company in Beirut, Lebanon. Caps with "Pida Pepsi'' and "Quaker Oats, Mucha Nutricion a Poco Costo" went to Mexico. Caps went to fruit peddlers in Vicenza, Italy, to soft-drink vendors in Caracas, Venezuela, to pickle packers in Pittsburgh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROMOTION: Caps on the Side | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

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