Word: sonora
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...Back in 1917, the new-rich were buying Chandler and Stearns automobiles, Sonora phonographs, French and Italian silk lingerie...
...flaming torches carried by relays of Indian runners have been moving towards Mexico City from the jungles of southeastern Yucatan and the arid hills of northwestern Sonora. The torches, symbols of freedom, were supposed to reach the capital for the Day of Revolution, Nov. 20. But last fortnight one torch was extinguished. Padding through a little village in Sinaloa, the torchbearer was arrested as an arsonist...
...nerve-warring Almazanistas. But this time President Lazaro Cardenas refused to accept assurances from the Governor of Chiapas, General Antonio Rios Zertuche, that the Governor had no knowledge of an up rising. He was ordered by the President to leave Chiapas at once and take over as Governor of Sonora, at the extreme opposite end of Mexico, adjoining Arizona...
...Louis, Mo., tweedy Mrs. Gilbert P. Strelinger, vice president of the American Pointer Club, was last week taking care of Ch. Stainton Sonora, an exquisite showing pointer bitch from Cheshire, England which answers to her calling name Barbara only when it is pronounced with a broad English accent. Angry St. Louisans have written Mrs. Strelinger asking why she did not adopt refugee orphans instead of dogs...
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...