Word: firetrap
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...live up to the valuation of $50,000,000 arbitrators set on it 34 years ago. In it stand the new $165,000 Bowie High School and a new U. S. Customs House, but more prominently a red-light district, a small stockyard and any number of ratty firetrap tenements. To Deputy Pérez' oratory, the reaction of city-proud El Pasoans was: "Wish to hell they would give it to Mexico...