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...shelter the President at night, but if the hacienda of a rich Mexican is sighted toward dusk the Cárdenas party of from ten to 50 horsemen may drop in on the local bigwig whom it is the business of the Six-Year Plan to turn into a smallwig owning not over 381 acres-the theoretical top to which all crop-producing private land holdings in Mexico are ultimately to be reduced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Plows Plus Rifles | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

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