Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only light east on the wreck is that possibly there was an unusual coastal current and that wireless communication was " jammed" on account of attempts to send aid to the Pacific Mail liner Cuba, wrecked a few hours earlier on San Miguel Island, 35 miles away. Arguello Point extends out into the Pacific at the place where the wreck occurred, and it is possible that Commander E. H. Watson, in charge of the destroyer squadron, believed that this Point had been rounded...
...State Department, with its chief away, remained silent while the crisis over Cuba's lottery and her railroad bill (TiME, Aug. 13, Aug. 27, Sept. 3) developed or died out (it is too early yet to say which...
...Last week it was stated in TIME, in connection with the Tarafa railroad bill, that "in Cuba it is sometimes said that . . . the Rockefeller-Morgan interests run the railroads." The firm of J.P. Morgan & Co. now states that it has "no interest, direct or indirect, in the Tarafa railroad bill and has not supported...
...principle. . . . We could not yield to any foreign power the control of the Panama Canal or the approaches to it. ... So far as the region of the Caribbean Sea is concerned ... if we had no Monroe Doctrine we should have to create one. . . . " Our treatment of Cuba, Santo Domingo and Haiti has been designed "not to create, to preclude the necessity of intervention...
...main facts of the situation seem to be that Cuba's railway troubles are caused by the Island's attenuated shape. It is cheaper for sugar companies to build a short road to the coast and put their sugar directly aboard ship than to patronize the " public" railways which run lengthwise of tile country, whose freight rates are expensive and whose service is inadequate. The Tarafa bill would improve the railways at the expense of the Cuban sugar industry. As Colonel Tarafa himself pointed out, Americans are about equally heavily interested in both industries. In Cuba it is sometimes said...