Word: caning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million tons-lowest in 20 years and half the size of the pre-Castro harvest. This year, according to U.S. estimates, the crop will run only to 4,000,000 tons-barely enough to meet Cuba's Iron Curtain commitments. Russia had promised to deliver 3,500 automatic cane loaders and build 500 more in Cuba. As of last week, only 1,500 were available. Also promised were three new sugar mills: only one is ready...
...kind of crowd that Salvador Dali likes best, and there was the Spanish surrealist, who is now 59, in all his gaudy glory. His well-beeswaxed mustachios are a little shorter than they were. But his habitual gilt vest still glittered as he brandished his enameled cane and explained in cryptic Franglais the 30 new works that he had brought with...
...watch companies-including subsidiaries of Hamilton and Benrus-assemble movements from Japanese, French, Moroccan and even Russian parts that are imported at the Virgins' low 6% tariff rate. Other companies process shoelaces, textiles, pens and medical thermometers. Old-line sugar planters complain that they can no longer get cane cutters at 600 an hour while the new factories pay $1.15, and housewives cry that the monthly cost of maid service has inflated from...
...biggest fight of all, Paiewonsky is trying to shift the islands' agriculture out of sugar cane-which is raised on 155 mostly small, uneconomical estates -and into citrus and other higher cash crops. Over protests of the sugar growers, Paiewonsky is urging the federally run Virgin Islands Corp. to close the islands' one creaky sugar mill. "Vicorp" itself is negotiating a long-term lease of 1,700 acres of government-owned and money-losing sugar fields to Big Industrialist Daniel K. Ludwig (TIME, Aug. 2). Ludwig intends to raise citrus for frozen juice then blend one part Virgin...
...fell off a horse, broke his leg, and settled down for life. Benjamin bought a hardware store, married a missionary's daughter, had four children. In 1888 the ambitious ex-sailor got a royal franchise from King Kalakaua to build a narrow-gauge railroad to haul sugar cane from inland Oahu down to the sea. Skeptics called it "Dillingham's Folly." But it was a huge success, became a key first step in the Dillingham family's development of the islands...