Word: sonora
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After three and a half years of the Six-Year Plan, more than 45% of Mexico's population is now officially listed as living on collective farms. The three largest centres for Cárdenas Collectivism are the vast La Laguna cotton districts, the wheat lands of Sonora, and the henequen region in the Yucatan Peninsula which used to lead the world in producing the raw materials for binder twine and rope. Read adjustment after land distribution was so violent that production of henequen fell off by half. During the weeks in which the Peninsula was being collectivized nobody...
Your adjectives backward and primitive might justly be applied to the Mayo and Tarahumari Indians who live in the mountains of Sonora and Chihuahua but would you be satisfied to have American culture judged by the hillbillies of Kentucky and Tennessee or the crackers of Georgia and Florida? And I believe that even today you can find within fifty miles of Manhattan Island . . . plenty of backward and primitive people...
...lemons in Los Angeles, rushed them to Oakland where they sold them, during a temporary shortage that boosted the price, for $520. But, as their luck was looking up, a drunken driver smashed into the truck, nearly killed Paul. Driving alone, hauling pipe to the oil fields, dynamite to Sonora, Nick picked up a girl on the road. He got her a room in Los Angeles, but after driving the 400 miles from Los Angeles to Oakland and back to Los Angeles, he was always so tired when he saw her that she decided he was indifferent. As loads...
...injunction was refused to the Longa Co. and Hacendado Alberto Danadieu: who sought to stop further land expropriation in the State of Sonora. Pudgy-cheeked President Cardenas made plans to supervise personally the land-division in Sonora, where are located the haciendas of such newsmaking names as Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, the John Hays Hammond estate, the Richardson Co. of Arizona...
...Nashville at 14, William Walker was successively surgeon, lawyer, journalist before he was 29. In that year, having absorbed as much as he could hold of the expansionist propaganda then parading as the "manifest destiny'' of the U. S., he decided to colonize the Mexican state of Sonora. Short of men and food, still shorter on experience, the expedition lasted through seven months of skirmishes, mutinies, desertions, marauding and general futility. Relieved to get out alive, Walker limped across the U. S. border with 34 survivors, surrendered to U. S. authorities. On trial in San Francisco for violation...