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...state (the subject of some 100 early pages) the Kikuyu people were well-built, well-adjusted savages, who observed strict tribal laws combining communal ownership of land with private initiative as regards goats and wives, the latter being worth about 30 of the former plus a batch of sugar-cane beer. Occasionally they fought a battle with the tall, handsome Masai. Their medicine man shrewdly advised them on all important matters...
This run was a comedy of ignorance. World wheat granaries were bulging with 5,300,000,000 bushels of grain, of which the U. S. held 3,500,000,000. Two and a half million tons of sugar were on hand, the U. S. beet and cane crop was estimated at 2,100,000 more and in overproducing Cuba a crop of 3,500,000 was in prospect -all ample to meet U. S. needs (annual consumption: 6,600,000 tons) with plenty left over for the perennial Cuban surplus. For the fall killing there were a bumper pig crop...
...supply these markets, Cuban production jumped from 10% of the annual world supply to 25%. Havana blossomed out as a boom city, its real-estate prices spiraling dizzily. All through eastern Cuba woodcutters cleared thousands of acres of forest. Negroes from Haiti and coolies from China planted sugar cane between blackened tree stumps. To move the sugar crop, American banks opened subsidiaries in Havana, with the Chase National Bank and the National City Bank of New York taking the lead...
Plump Mrs. Anthony Geraci, goodwife of The Bronx, N. Y., limped to St. Lucy's Roman Catholic Church one evening last week, leaning on a cane. Her dragging left foot was supported in a steel brace. After services in the church, Mrs. Geraci and some 500 other worshippers followed Father Pasquale T. Lombardo to St. Lucy's new, $10,000 outdoor shrine, a replica of the famed grotto at Lourdes. Mrs. Geraci went to the shrine's pool, fed by city water trickling over big rocks below a statue of the Virgin...
...Barcus, 74, friends since boyhood. Last week Nick was dead of a fractured skull and Alex in jail, charged with murder. Said Alex Wilson: "Nick and me, we never had any trouble. ... It was all over a little argument about Nick locking the door. He came up with a cane and said whoever said he locked the door was a liar. And I shouted back to him that he did lock it. Then he swung his cane at me ... so I swung back. ... I guess I must have hit him on the head...