Word: chihuahua
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dogs and closed stalls for little ones, the show took up most of the Hall. We weren't quite sure why they boxed in the little hounds. Either they are uniformly vicious little dogs or their loving owners suspected that Boston dignitaries were not above shoplifting a champion Chihuahua to show the folks back home...
Fundamentals. In Juarez, Mexico, after running 225 miles to carry the symbolic torch for the El Paso (Tex.) Sun Carnival from Chihuahua City (Mexico), Pedro Paseno had a brief statement for the press: "My feet hurt...
...John Jacob Astor dazzled Manhattan's El Morocco nightclub by exhibiting Wow-wow, her Chihuahua, in a new look. Wow-wow-a male-had a diamond ring on each paw and a sapphire choker around his innocent neck...
...came to office the best-briefed President in Mexico's history. He proceeded to surround himself with strong men. Some were old university friends, such as Gobernacion Minister Hector Perez Martinez and Treasury Minister Ramon Beteta. Some were political veterans. Strapping Antonio Bermudez, a former treasurer of Chihuahua, marched out of the President's office with an armload of reports and charts, the new boss of Mexico's oil resources. Others were new to the game of politics. Antonio Ruiz Galindo, millionaire manufacturer of office furniture, was made' Minister of National Economy and placed in command...
...earth and 2) politics. Last July he completed a $10 million aqueduct in Puebla, Mexico for the Mexican Government. Now he is building a $45 million steel mill for Paul Shields, another contractor, who will own and operate the mill. He bought controlling interest in a lumber company in Chihuahua. Last summer he teamed up with Mexican bankers, raised $3½ million and bought control of the 500-mile-long Mexico North-Western Railway, which runs from Juarez to Chihuahua...