Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cuba's entire navy put to sea. Army planes roared off from Havana Field to join the chase, but the Coral was too sly for them, slipped away in the haze...
...like to. We thought of calling ourselves cavaliers. . . . In Paris now they're calling dancers like us 'dancing doctors.' And, of course, they have gigolos over there, but we are not gigolos." (No tipping is allowed.) Said Dancer Ernesto Piedra, whose father General Manuel Piedra is Cuba's minister to China: "I think we should call ourselves 'associates of the dance...
Formed in 1924 after old Atlantic Fruit Co. had been foreclosed, the company lost money in every succeeding year. Last week it suddenly announced it had disposed of its $6,000,000-a-year fruit business (bananas in Jamaica and Cuba) to Standard Fruit & Steamship Corp., controlled by the Vaccaro interests of New Orleans. With the sugar industry in bad shape, with its current liabilities greater than current assets as last reported, Atlantic Fruit & Sugar seemed on the verge of another reorganization despite its imposing directorate...
Pilot Hall, wealthy broker, landed at Havana's Columbia Field by mistake, then hopped over to Curtiss Field where a crowd awaited him and where William Pawley, president of Curtiss Aviation Co. of Cuba, handed him a cocktail as he stepped from the cockpit. He promptly ordered another, rested, flew back to Long Island to organize a national tour of flying Crusaders...
...Cuba Sc.D...