Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years. Today it has a million readers in 200 newspapers (including the Chicago Evening Post, Indianapolis Star, Minneapolis Star, Buffalo Times, Erie, Pa., Times). Syndicated by the Newspaper Feature Service, Inc., of Manhattan, it has also been translated into Spanish for El Mundo of Havana, Cuba...
...waved goodby at her and for almost a day she was seen no more from land. Her wireless, however, reported her nosing smoothly southward -off Cape Charles, Savannah, Jacksonville, Daytona. Night watchers at Nassau, British Bahamas, thought that they saw her bulk. Then she was a little south of Cuba, then off Jamaica. The trade winds fanned her ahead at a 90 m. p. h. scoot, and at last she, the airship Los Angeles, was at her goal, France Field, Panama Canal Zone. Lieutenant Commander Charles E. Rosendahl had put his airboat across 2,265 miles in 40 hours...
...Doran and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Seymour Lowman gave out a portentous announcement: "The conventions shall be Dry!" That is, undercover agents, already at work, will try to intimidate such liquor operators as have not already gotten their shipments through to Houston and Kansas City from Mexico, Cuba, Canada. Naturally enough, the Houston convention will receive the most attention, not solely because it is Democratic but because it is so near a border and because Texas has always out-thirsted Kansas. It is not likely, however, that the persons, baggage or hotel rooms of delegates themselves will be searched...
...Cuba Cane Sugar Corp. (which figured the price of cane sugar in 1927 to be $0.02493 a Ib.)-$5,275,599-Previous year...
Such solicitude not to offend the U. S. characterized not merely policemen, but the highest authorities of State, who went so far as to bar from entrance to Cuba, last week, the distinguished Dr. Pierre Hundicourt, onetime Haitian Delegate to the Hague Peace Conference, who is now an avowed propagandist against "the Imperialist policy of the U. S. in Latin America...