Word: pesos
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...been confiscated for peons, but the Government keeps title to it and many peons work only enough for subsistence. Mexico has a beautiful new highway system through its lofty, beautiful mountains and tourists last week flocked to Mexico City as once they did to Paris in springtime, but the peso has dropped to six to the dollar and the possibility that the U. S. may stop buying silver has every Mexican businessman in a sweat...
...economic mess has driven the country into closer economic relations with Japan, Germany and South American countries. Mexico still mortally fears gringo imperialism, whose representatives are again taking advantage of internal conditions to exploit the tour ist trade and mineral industries on the strength of the falling peso. And the Government will slap gringo wrists when it can get away with it. Last fortnight it ordered nationalized thousands of acres of U. S.-owned chicle lands...
From the boxes on the shady side, elegant ladies waved their lace handkerchiefs. In the sol (sunny side), two-peso fans whistled and yelled, tossed their hats into the ring. Conchita had done it again-with as much skill and grace as the three top-flight matadors who had preceded her on the program, the last big corrida of the bullfighting season. While the stands roared "Olé, Olé!", Conchita received a gold cup for the best performance...
...this correction. There is no 500 peso fine for wearing clerical garb in the U. S., thank God! The gracious and pious Mr. Daniels, Ambassador of the U. S. in Mexico, honored and received us at the Embassy as churchmen, i.e., sans mufti...
...America, and turn bad ones into good ones, the U. S. lately has lavished foofaraw and funds on Brazil, Haiti, Nicaragua. Last week in Washing ton, Paraguay's President-elect José Félix Estigarribia got his share: a $500,000 credit to bolster the wavering Paraguayan peso, plus further loans to finance purchases of U. S. materials, machinery, services for Paraguayan roads and industry...