Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Artist Quintana's community, Cochiti Pueblo on the Rio Grande, still looks much as it did when Coronado explored New Mexico 400 years ago this summer. Pictured in his prize-winning tempera are its crops (corn, wheat, melons, squash), irrigated then as now from the river; its Indians dancing, drumming, hoeing, baking, carrying water; its arid hills beyond. Only post-Coronado additions are a mission and school...
From the broad river Plate, that waters the land of the gaucho, to the sleepy borders of the Rio Grande, 120,000,000 Latin Americans last week came smack up against a fact. The fact was comforting to some, disquieting to others; but to all it was as huge and undeniable as Popocatepetl: that the U. S., either as Good Neighbor or as Colossus of the North, was definitely on the move...
What the plan would be in perfected detail, the Good Neighbor was still willing to leave to the conference table. But even its outlines raised plenty of questions, north and south of the Rio Grande. Two different views had emerged last week. The Department of Commerce envisaged a U. S.-subsidized-and-managed pool of all export commodities, under central control...
...Angeles, film society held war relief auctions. In San Francisco Elsa Maxwell gave a party, plugging Foyers du Soldat, incidentally plugging her motion picture The Lady and the Lug. Cinemactresses Constance Bennett, Dolores del Rio, Claudette Colbert were caught by an indiscreet cameraman, sorting old clothes...
Texas Railroad Commissioner Jerry Sadler announced a plan for setting the Rio Grande on fire, to protect the U. S. against invasion from Mexico: "If only 20 wells would turn oil into the Rio Grande and the oil was then set afire, it would be impossible for any invading army to cross...