Word: ruiz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Treasury Minister Ramon Beteta. Some were political veterans. Strapping Antonio Bermudez, a former treasurer of Chihuahua, marched out of the President's office with an armload of reports and charts, the new boss of Mexico's oil resources. Others were new to the game of politics. Antonio Ruiz Galindo, millionaire manufacturer of office furniture, was made' Minister of National Economy and placed in command of industrialization. Adolfo Orive de Alba, top-notch irrigation engineer, was appointed first Minister of Hydraulic Resources, allocated $200,000,000 and told to get started...
Pablo Picasso y Ruiz was having a one-man show last week. Among the people who flocked to see it in Paris' Galerie Louis Carré was the Brazilian Ambassador to France, an amateur of the arts. Two art experts guided him to a painting which-like many recent Picassos-had a few careless spots on it as well as several places where the great man had obviously painted over his earlier attempts. The Ambassador would have none of it, triumphantly selected a nice clean one to take home...
...Mexican capitalist, unlike the old hacendado (landholder), is a self-made man. Take Ruiz Galindo. At 48 he is worth about $5,000,000; he started as a produce dealer, at 18 had his own small prospering business in tropical Cordoba. In his twenties he was star salesman in Mexico City for General Fireproofing Co. of Youngstown, Ohio, and sold the firm's largest order in Mexico: material for Mexico's West Point-Colegio Militar de Mexico...
...expanded into other enterprises. Example: he turned his summer home at Fortin into a hotel, enticed tourists with a gardenia-filled swimming pool, has made the resort almost a tourist must. Ruiz Galindo weekends in Fortin, does business in bathing trunks at the pool's edge. In Mexico City he lives in new, garish Lomas de Chapultepec, the suburb of the newly arrived bourgeois...
Last Sunday, Ruiz Galindo and his era took a bow. In the main production room of his unfinished Industrial City, Mexico's National Industrial Chamber of Commerce opened a giant exhibition of Mexican-made products...