Word: shows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bigger than Venezuela, they reasoned, with coffee, gold and other cash products besides oil. Many even argued that an oil boom would hinder the country's all-round development, and pointed to oil-rich Venezuela's deficient agriculture and industry for proof. "What will Venezuela have to show for lying supine before the drillers?" snapped a young Colombian oil-ministry bureaucrat. "Holes, that...
Summing up, Doug Abbott reported that the budget was planned to show a surplus of $202 million next year. In an election year like this one, it was also planned to catch plenty of votes...
...could call its own. His name: Diego Rivera. The crates in the Palace of Fine Arts held 500 pic tures ranging from the academic studies and cubist experiments of Rivera's student days to the power fully realistic productions of his maturity, assembled for a retro spective show opening...
...show would help clinch Rivera's reputation as the Western Hemisphere's finest living painter...
...right into the revolution against Dictator Diaz. The same week Diego's exhibit opened, Francisco Madero proclaimed Diaz a usurper and, with the help of Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata, began the seven-month job of forcing the aging dictator out of Mexico. After Diego's show closed, he lit out for the open country, carrying messages to the revolutionaries...