Word: cols
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite good times and a boom in sugar, Cubans were griping last week. From scrubby street gamins in Havana's Barrio de Colén to the panama-hatted businessmen in the Manzana de Gémez, they panned Grau for the high price of lard, the scarcity of beef, the roaring black market. There were demands in the press for his resignation. Habaneros tell the story of the Camaguey man who had been badly beaten up for talking about Grau. "Did you say very bad things about him?" asked a sympathetic cop. "No, I praised him, and then...
...ever aimed at him-that he possessed "the greatest mind of the 14th Century" - did Bertie, as well as Dante, a disservice.* So have the oversimplified pictures of McCormick as a feudal lord of the manor, aping the English aristocrats he professes to detest; as a fascist menace; as "Col. McCosmic," the frustrated military strategist; as a crackpot Midas...
...Died. Col. William J. L. Lyster, 77, retired U.S. Army doctor, inventor (1916) of the "Lyster Bag," a large, rubberized, udder-like canvas container from which soldiers in both World Wars drew thoroughly purified, highly unpalatable water; in Washington...
...Still blowing hot, that is. Jim Lannigan went classical, and is blowing col...
...Labor argued that since May 1945 price rises had exceeded wage gains (see chart, col. 3). Food prices, which make up 43% of the average budget, had zoomed past all wage increases. Labor had won a higher living standard during the war and seemed determined to keep...