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...most responsible for the hemisphere trade is a Spanish-born (1889), Chilean-raised, U.S.-trained salesman for Hays named Eladio Susaeta. His first employer, a rich Chilean rancher, sent him north to study animal husbandry at the University of California. Susaeta wrote his boss what he learned about milk-rich Holsteins, convinced him that milk could be as profitable as the beef on which Latinos concentrated. Returning with a B.S. in 1917, Susaeta brought several head along with him. He later stocked a ranch of his own with los Holsteinos, began promoting them far & wide. Ultimately he gave...
...months Juan Perón's secretary, Spanish-born José Figuerola, had toiled in secret over the President's proposals for revising the battered Argentine constitution of 1853. Even the staunchest Peronistas had no inkling of the changes...
Married. Rose Louise Hovic ("Gypsy Rose Lee"), 33, premiere stripteuse; and Julio de Diego, 47, Spanish-born artist; each for the third time; in The Bronx...
...raids, doctors found that victims whose legs had been pinned under timbers or masonry for several hours sometimes died mysteriously of kidney failure. The puzzled doctors called this strange death "crush syndrome." To find out what a crushed leg had to do with the kidneys, Spanish-born Dr. Josep Trueta and four co-workers at Oxford's Nuffield Institute for Medical Research* began some blood-circulation experiments on rabbits...
Ralph got his know-how the hard way. His Spanish-born parents died a few years after their arrival in Mexico City (where Ralph was born in 1908), and, at the age of ten, Ralph turned up in Shreveport, La., having gone along with a Mexican family just for the ride. He did odd jobs, went to public school, drove a taxi, saw the country, became an auto body finisher in Detroit - until his employers found where all the nicks were coming from - and topped off the U.S. phase of his career one night by leading Detroit...