Word: caning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Open a bar in your house. Be your only customer. Give your wife 1,440 cruzeiros [$7.57] to buy a case of 24 bottles of caninha Garcas [raw-sugar-cane alcohol]. Buy a bottle a day at 5 cr. (3?) a shot from your wife. If you live another ten years and then drop dead, your widow will have 115,200 cr. [$606.31] in the bank-enough to raise the kids, pay off the mortgage, marry a good man and forget that she ever knew a drunken bum like...
...Brazilian Amazon Development Agency lent him $125,000 to start his rubber and Brazil nut groves, but since they take seven years before they bear fruit, he planted sugar cane for a quicker crop. It grew fast- 18 ft. high. To make the most of it he had to process it into a product he could sell locally. Friends in Texas dug up $30,000 to build the distillery...
...provinces, fires destroyed 2,500 tons of sugar cane and a tobacco-curing house in Pinar del Rio. In mid-island Camagüey province, two trains were derailed by sabotage; Camagüey city itself was darkened for four hours by the bombing of a key power transformer...
...sinister British-Nazi faction of Sir Oswald Mosley goose-stepping in Hyde Park; the garden walls hand-built by Churchill during his enforced retirement at Chartwell; later shots of Winston Churchill walking the deck of a British battleship, wearing bow tie and bowler and carrying a cane. First Lord of the Admiralty once more, after the message had gone out to His Majesty's fleet, "Winston is back." What really put the ABC series in flight were the words behind the pictures, the prose of Churchill spoken in the Elizabethan voice of Actor Richard Burton, an apt combination that...
...Marching In or Show Me the Way to go Home-depending upon whether the workers are coming or going. Three Negro campaigners take on the Negroes among the plant workers. In the center of it all stands a jaunty, greying, middle-sized man, his left hand leaning on a cane, his right hand outstretched in the eternal gesture of the office seeker. "How do you do," he says, pumping his hand, already swollen from handshaking. "I'm unemployed, and I want to go to work for you. My name is Paul Bagwell...