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...cameramen have carefully perceived things which Hollywood has only squinted at. They have caught the quick flash of sunlight off the front fender of a car. They have watched a pent-up ball of twine roll excitedly along a curbstone. They have found the texture of a masonry wall, and the quiet beauty of a row of tenements slanting downhill into the afternoon...
Also gone with the balloon was a banner which was suspended about 50 feet below it. In fact, the only thing the pranksters did not take was the crossbar of the sign and a few feet of the extra-strong twine which anchored it about 300 feet...
...India's jute made better bags. On top of everything else, President Cárdenas enforced Mexico's agrarian laws, and the largest land owners found their plantations cut to 300 acres apiece. By 1938, Yucatán, which once held all the world's binder twine market, was down to a 20% share...
Happy Days. World War II gave henequeneros a new chance. The U.S., through crop purchases, pumped over $50 million into the area. A smart Syrian merchant named Cabalan Macari set up twine and rope factories and made a killing. The old families woke up to the fact that they still had their machinery, and could charge as much for disfibering agave spikes as they could get. By war's end, the number of factories had grown from 11 to 100. In the mansions on the Paseo de Montejo it was like old times...
...last week's storm warnings foreshadow another economic hurricane like 1920's? If so, Macari and other forward-looking henequeneros thought they could weather it. There are new uses for Yucatán fibers in the U.S. to make up for the decreasing use of binder twine. With a little help from the industrial-minded Mexican Government, in subsidies and export-tax concessions, Yucatán's factories might get a share of such business. The serried rows of agave would still stretch green across the Yucatán flatland...