Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...illegal commodity in parts of Canada, Canadian government officials cannot directly prohibit exporters from shipping their wares to the U. S. When 30 liquor docks were closed last week at Windsor, Ont., the reason given was not the well known fact that many a shipment consigned to "Cuba," "Mexico." "Nassau," etc. etc., was going straight across the water to Detroit. But National Revenue Minister Euler represented that Canada's export tax on liquor was being consistently evaded. Chairman Sir Henry Drayton of the Ontario (provincial) Liquor Control Board, also complained that export liquor was being smuggled back into Canada...
Never again will he hop off alone, Capt. Patterson said. But he announced plans for a four or five weeks' joyhop over the blue Caribbean, when Lieut. Becker will be at his side. Floyd Gibbons, famed journalist, will be guest. From Cuba to Central America, South America and the close-linked West Indies, he planned to circle the famed buccaneer waters. Last week his new plane, the Liberty, was being tuned up at Mitchel Field, L. I. She is a three-ton yacht of the air, with luxurious cabin, two motors of 520 horsepower each, speed of 140 miles...
...Field, christened a big airplane Christopher Columbus. If she noticed that it was a Ford plane, she said nothing. It was supposed to have been a Fokker plane, the first of the Pan-American Airways Transport system, soon to open routes from Miami to Nassau, Havana, Camagüey (Cuba), San Juan, P. R. and, later, Mexico, Central and South America. The Fokker ship meant to have been christened Christopher Columbus had been cracked up the day before. The substitute Ford was leased...
...despite the ban placed upon his tennis playing activities by the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association and extended last week by the International Lawn Tennis Federation, he could still play as an amateur in Russia or in Abyssinia. In the 35 principal tennis-playing countries of the world, including Cuba, Japan and Monaco, he will be considered a professional, because last summer he wrote reports of British tournaments for U. S. news-sheets...
...many a week, reports had sifted through that 1929 would see the lifting of Cuban restrictions on production of sugar cane. Producers had made calculations, had figured that Cuba's sugar crop, now over 4,000,000 tons, without restriction would reach 4,500,000, perhaps 5,000,000. Yet U. S. sugar men frowned, last week, when the conservative Journal of Commerce (N. Y.) reported the word "determined" as issuing from the Presidential mouth of Cuba's Gen. Gerardo Machado y Morales. Still frowning, sugarmen considered an appeal to Congress to boost tariff rates, another appeal...