Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mexican tortillas, molded to the head and well-shellacked, made salable chapeaux. He made other hats from zacate, the maguey fiber Mexicans use instead of steel wool, and the cheap woven straw strips used to cinch saddles under horses' bellies. Among his clients: Magda Lupescu and Dolores del Rio...
...last week in mock amazement. "We haven't gone crazy yet," he added. Argentina's President was assuring a group of Brazilian newsmen that he had no designs on his neighbors. "It has been said that we want to resurrect the old viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata [which included Uruguay, Paraguay and part of Bolivia]. When they say that, I always say: 'We have lots of land and we don't need any more...
Stucco on the Lawn. Called Kilometer 47 (because of its distance from Rio), the school spreads over 4,900 acres straddling the road to São Paulo. Its main buildings (yellowish stucco and red tile roofs) are set on spacious lawns landscaped with pools, palms and gravel driveways...
...farmers of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, who had just begun to harvest the biggest cotton crop in their history, reckoned that the new canal would bring them 1) cheaper freight for their products, 2) lower prices for the steel and other materials they need for plants to process and can seafood and the valley's produce. Three new plants worth about $65 million were already abuilding in Brownsville, partly in expectation of the boom...
Lucky Joe. In the Rio Grande cotton country, the first bolls of the new crop were ripe and the annual "first bale" race was on. Near Me Allen, Tex., young (27) Joe Acosta directed the 150 pickers on the 1,600 acres he tenant-farms, while he kept in touch with the nearby cotton gin, checking on his rivals. When Acosta had enough, he rushed the cotton into town to be ginned, piled the 512-lb. bale aboard a pick-up truck and raced 350 miles to the Houston Cotton Exchange in 6½ hours. For bringing in the first...