Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shrewd Norfolk farmers in the east of England were reported last week to be bartering pails of milk for pints of water. Half round the world in Santiago de Cuba there were street fights and stabbings when the water-carts passed. Prolonged drought was parching many lands, but rural England and Cuba seemed to suffer most. Scientists recalled that, although man can go without food for two months and live, without water he shrivels and dies in from six days...
Though their crops were parching, English farmers kept their level heads, but small-town Cubans panicked badly. Frantic was the situation provoked at Santiago de Cuba when the Chief of the Water Works, without warning, cut off all water from public buildings, hotels, finally from homes. Next day this thrice rash official telegraphed to Havana...
Young Mrs. Kao, high born and college-bred, daughter of the Chinese Minister to Cuba, expressed polite surprise. The tin boxes, she explained, had been placed in her trunks by influential friends in China, to be carried as gifts to other influential friends in the U. S. Asked who these friends were, she refused to tell. She would be killed surely if she did, she said. She had no explanation at all about some documents which, found with the opium and translated, indicated that she was to have received $23,000 upon delivering the tins to the "influential friends...
...close touch through Hill School and Yale friends. So as an operating executive he was well qualified when, one year ago. Aviation Corp. of the Americas bought Pan-American Airways, to make his project actual. During the past year he has opened passenger lines from Miami to Nassau, to Cuba and the West Indies as far as Porto Rico (a tourist route), to Central America via Brownsville, Tex. and Mexico City...
...April 23, Carrier Rowan landed in Kingston, Jamaica, sailed Cuba-ward that night on a dirty native fishing boat under the eyes of the Spanish patrol which was scouring the Caribbean. Flat on his back against a gunwale, Carrier Rowan heard a Spaniard swagger alongside shouting queries; heard his pilot's lazy answer, the Spaniard's satisfied grunt...