Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that during this Administration munitions were sold to Panama, Nicaragua, Cuba...
...abnormal conditions in the shipping industry all over the world, as well as the cut-throat competitive reduction in freight rates, forced the failure of the New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Co., better known as the "Ward Line." Liabilities of the Company are estimated at $2,000,000, with assets probably in excess of that figure. The principal trouble with the Company is that it cannot at present operate profitably. This has left it without funds to meet current obligations, and forced its bankruptcy...
...incorporation of a new company, the American and Foreign Power Co. This new concern which has successfully floated an issue of 7% first preferred stock by public subscription, will acquire a number of public utility companies controlled by the Electric Bond and Share Co. in 39 communities of Cuba, Panama and Guatemala. The new company expects considerable prosperity from the present depreciated rates for foreign exchange, and also since public utilities in foreign countries are in general more profitable now than...
Then came another war. The San Francisco Chronicle sent him to Cuba as correspondent in the Santiago campaign. He was wounded, contracted a fever, but had hardly grown well when he started for South Africa and the Boer War. It was from that time that his close friendship with Lord Kitchener was said to date...
Hugh Gibson was born at Los Angeles, California, in 1883, has been in the U. S. Diplomatic Corps since he left school. He has seen service in Honduras, England, Cuba, Belgium, France and Santo Domingo. He has held his present position since 1919, the year that the Independence of the Republic of Poland was recognized by the Treaty of Versailles...