Word: caning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many other countries have found it so easy to grow cane that world sugar prices tumbled from 10½?per lb. last year to a mere 2? last week. With more than half his crop committed to the Soviets under their barter arrangement, Castro will realize at most $130 million on open-market sugar sales this year...
There is no genuine forward-planning except that forced on the reluctant Cubans by the Russians. With cane-planting time almost upon them, Castro officials were frantically scouring world markets last week for nitrate fertilizers that should have been ordered six months ago. Castro faces the problem of a physical plant that is disintegrating with no way to replace it. Last year a Castro official described the state of the country's railroad system as "desperate," noting that 75% of the locomotives operating in 1959 were out of commission. Havana Radio recently criticized a pulp and paper plant...
...with U.S.-made F-86 jets of the Pakistan air force. With peasant wisdom Sharif decided, "The Indians must be losing in Kashmir. Now they are trying to bother us down here." He urged the young men of the village to arm themselves with clubs and search through the cane and cornfields for downed Indian pilots...
...actor called Gene Barry, who happens to be a Jewish boy from Brooklyn. When a youthful fan at Canada's Calgary Stampede handed him a snare drum, and asked "Would you sign this, Bat?", Barry snapped: "My name is Gene Barry," and bashed his gold-headed Bat Masterson cane right through the head of the drum. He was not asked back...
...grim. The voice that frustrated generations of newsmen and an antitrust subcommittee of the U.S. Senate was curiously grammatical as Charles Dillon ("Casey") Stengel, 75, announced last week that he was retiring as manager of the New York Mets. "At the present time," explained Casey, leaning heavily on a cane, "I am not capable of walking out on the ballfield. If I can't run out there and take a pitcher out, I don't want to complete my service...