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Days of Dictatorship. A little more than ten years ago Fulgencio Batista had been one of the humblest of Cuba's humble pueblo. He began his education (including English) in a U.S.-Quaker missionary school. He made a hungry living as a laborer in the cane fields, on the docks and railroads. He was a jack-of-all-trades: tailor, mechanic, charcoal vender, fruit peddler, and finally an Army stenographer. In the Army he got around, became a staff sergeant with remarkably wide connections. When Gerardo Machado's hated dictatorship rotted away in 1933, Sergeant Batista, then...
With his headquarters on Corregidor, he continued to cross to Bataan to encourage his troops. He was ravaged by beriberi, emaciated. He could barely use his right leg; he dragged himself along with a cane...
...cane sugar the bee gets from nectar is metabolized into honey sugars (glucose, levulose, dextrose). Honey normally has no vitamin C, and not much of any other vitamin...
Major General Schwengel's plan, which had the industry's blessing, sounded dazzlingly simple, and fine for the U.S. stomach, which has lately been assaulted by more & more rotgut.* The plan: that U.S. distillers should buy 50,000,000 gallons of Cuban cane alcohol at 80? a gal. They would resell this to the Government at 50? a gal. in exchange for permission to withdraw 35,000,000 gal. of good U.S. grain alcohol at 90? a gal. and to turn it into good U.S. prewar-style potables. This was supposed 1) to add at least...
...Last week, after weeks of cogitation, OPA forbade liquor dealers to use the word "gin" for the new cane-base, shellac-scented cocktail base now pouring into the U.S. from the Caribbean. The official, denatured title from now on: "Distilled spirits made from cane products and favored with aromatics...