Word: oro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Axis had only itself to blame. Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla had already sent the Axis a violent ultimatum on the torpedoing of the Potrero del Llano (TIME, May 25). Then last week off Cuba the Axis bungled into torpedoing the 6,607-ton tanker Faja de Oro, which Mexico had grabbed from Italy last year, and whose commander openly boasted last month that he had rammed and sunk an Axis...
...groups were trying hard to convert into pro-war sentiment the quite comprehensible rage of the Mexican people against the Nazis who had killed 13 of the Potrero del Llano's 35-man crew, 14 of the Faja de Oro's 41. A procession of the Potrero's survivors, bearing with them the body of Engineer Rodolfo Chacon Castro, who had died of wounds in a Miami hospital, moved south from San Antonio, Tex. It was predicted that 100,000 would greet the cortege when it arrived in Mexico City's main square, the Zocalo, where...
Married. Flor de Oro Trujillo, daughter of General Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, onetime Boss-President of the Dominican Republic; and Dr. Maurice Marshall Berck, Manhattan surgeon; in Manhattan...
With full ceremony, mediators from Argentina, Brazil, Chile and the U.S. took over control of El Oro Province on the coast, which had been in Peruvian hands since last summer's fighting (TIME, Sept. 1), and turned it over to representatives of Ecuador...
...Ecuador, as in Peru, there has been some dissatisfaction over the settlement, since neither country got all it claimed. Ecuadorians charged that Peruvian soldiers pillaged El Oro before they evacuated, but observers noted that the Ecuadorian Army had also followed a scorched-earth policy when it retreated last year. The only losers seemed to be the inhabitants of El Oro...