Word: canings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cuba is that it would help stabilize the island's mercurial economy. But many Cubans (especially sugar growers and grinders) are not too fond of stability when sugar prices are rising. The U.S. negotiators may run into trouble aplenty. In Havana last week, an executive of the Cane Planters Association blasted the plan, declared: "We believe the 1942 crop can be sold advantageously at market prices during the year...
...eyes filled when she wiped away a tear with a black handkerchief. Each star represented a brother. He looked over his mother's head toward the platform, finally locating the defeated President. Vag followed the fixed stare of the man's eyes down to the end of the cane which rested beside him; and then, looking at the worried face, Vag tried to pierce into the throughts of this gallant leader of the war days. Peace promises had been flung back in the President's face by a Senate bloc which knew that a two-thirds majority was necessary...
...famous story is told of a truck-driver, halted by an imperious wave of the Kittredge cane one morning who leaned out of his cab and shouted, "Hey, Santa Claus, where do you think you're going...
...well aware of U.A.W.'s key position is John L. Lewis. While C.I.O. President Philip Murray lay convalescing from overwork and nervous exhaustion, John Lewis moved in on U.A.W. with the stealth of an elephant crashing through a cane brake...
...sugar since 1933. He first got interested in Puerto Rico back in 1934 when with Muñoz Marin 's help he set up the commission which drafted a plan to redistribute some 200,000 corporately held acres of Puerto Rico's 300,000 acres of sugar-cane land in tracts of 500 acres or less. Then Tugwell fell from Roosevelt favor and relapsed into political obscurity - from which Secretary Harold Ickes rescued him last winter by sending him to Puerto Rico to study land...