Word: tortilla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sure Mexico City's Hatmaker Henri Chatillon will be interested to learn that he is not the originator of tortilla hats [TIME...
George Herriman's [famed comic-strip character] Krazy Kat once demonstrated, to an astonished duck, the same hat-making possibilities of the tortilla...
Died. Frank Morgan (real name: Francis Philip Wuppermannf), 59, veteran cinemactor; of cerebral thrombosis; in Los Angeles. A onetime vaudevillean and Broadway star (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 1926; Topaze, 1930), Morgan was equally adept at straight character roles (the pirate in Tortilla Flat, the coach in The Stratton Story) or at his specialty: the ineffectual, fatuous old party who was alternately a garrulous liar and a gabby lecher...
...Hours for Lunch. What devaluation means to the average Mexican is something else. With devaluation, prices of imported articles go up forthwith. Then up go prices of domestic articles which depend on foreign raw materials. Prices of purely domestic articles follow suit, because even tortilla vendors would like to own a radio...
...employes of Ruiz Galindo's new steel-office-furniture factory in the Mexico City suburb will live in six ultramodern, rent-free apartment buildings, have free medical care, sports, movies, their own printing press. Free lunches and a cooperative grocery will discourage tortilla and chili diets. The clean factory has toilets, showers and quantities of mirrors. "If they look at themselves enough they will not want to be dirty," he says...