Word: caning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rich, mucky land along the shores of Lake Okeechobee in Florida's Everglades last week were paying as high as $1,000 an acre for land worth only $300 just six months ago. They were not Northerners planning vacation homes; they were Florida sugar-men looking for good cane-growing land so they can cash in on the sweet prosperity they see ahead for the domestic sugar industry, now that Cuban supplies...
...more for his canvases than for those of any other Brazilian, and Painter Portinari himself has called him "my master." Guignard must be watched every minute of the day: he is the kind of man who has happily traded a $2,500 painting for one bottle of cheap cane alcohol...
...tangle of secretive tribes with peculiar habits. The wily Daflas wear jockey caps with feathers; Gallong girls can have multiple husbands; the Tangsas dress in scotch-plaid sarongs. Apa Tani women are adorned with nose plugs and large, looped earrings, while Hill Miri girls wear tight petticoats of woven cane that give them a mincing walk. The Abors love to dance and fight, and the Mishmis, though remarkably handsome, have nevertheless been described by European explorers as being "excessively dirty" as well as "deceitful and bloodthirsty devils...
...family, Cuba's No. 1 Wise Man had a questionable gift. At a meeting in Havana, a claque of well-rehearsed sugar growers voted to abolish the long-established Cuba Cane Growers' Association and to condemn one man who spoke out against the move. The man was Castro's older (36) brother, Sugar Grower Ramón Castro, who helped the revolution with funds but has been increasingly critical of its recent course. The meeting derided Ramón Castro for "utilizing the name of the Prime Minister." And it urged jail for members...
Dried Fish. This is just the beginning of the profits he intends to wrest from the jungle. Next he plans to buy another 1,200,000 acres of nearby land and clear enough so he can grow more cane and build a refinery to supply the sugar needs of the whole territory. After that he hopes to build a plant to dry fish caught in the Rio Madeira, sell them for 20? to 30? for 2.2 Ibs. in the Amazon basin to replace the imported dried codfish that sells for $1. Furthermore, the rubber and Brazil nut trees soon will...