Word: caning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most serious is a strike of sugar workers that has closed down 21 sugar-cane grinding mills. Before mid-May, when seasonal rains start, 5,800,000 tons of cane must be ground in the country's 161 mills to bring in $600 million to make up the great bulk of Cuba's national income. Without the 21 closed mills, the goal cannot be met. Electrical workers were on a slowdown strike against the U.S.-owned Cuban Electric Co. They demanded higher pay, reinstatement of every employee fired since 1952 and the removal of Company President...
...father whose financial eminence is largely due to his skill at forgery. The Tiffanys hope to marry their daughter off to a French count, who. of course, turns out to be bogus; the Tiffanys' unprepossessing servant girl emerges as the daughter of Adam Trueman. a bewhiskered. cane-thumping farmer of great wealth and rectitude...
Died. Harvey Ellsworth Newbranch, 83, apple-cheeked, cane-bearing, retired (since 1949) editor in chief of the Omaha World-Herald, who joined the paper as a cub in 1898, rose to become one of the nation's topflight editorial writers, won a 1920 Pulitzer Prize for his florid, horror-struck brief against race rioters, "Law and the Jungle"; of a heart attack; in Omaha...
...Many New England witches were hanged, none was burned. The exception was Salem's Giles Cory who was bound, stretched out on the ground and covered with heavy stones. When the dying man's tongue protruded from his mouth, the local sheriff pushed it back with his cane...
...first oboists are often the most highly paid men in the orchestra, sometimes even better paid than the concertmaster. Most oboists make their own reeds, the shape and size of which largely determine the instrument's tone. Harold Gomberg, who has made trips to Europe in search of cane of the proper hardness, grain and color, maintains a studio where he spends dozens of hours a week whittling reeds to size (he uses as many as three reeds in a concert). The trick in oboe playing is to pay out supplies of breath in small, even quantities. This, says...