Word: zurita
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Dates: during 1947-1947
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...When the people of Las Casas, in Mexico's southern state of Chiapas, were told that no money had been appropriated for their section of the highway, they offered to work free if they had an engineer to show them how. Mexico City sent down Engineer Fernando Zurita. Under his direction the people tackled the job without modern machinery, using picks and shovels like Chinese coolies on the Burma Road...
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