Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only outlying properties to escape damage were the Botanical Gardens at Soledad, Cuba hit by all previous hurricanes, and the Astronomical Observatory in Zululand, Orange Free State, Africa...
...Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela...
...Tropic of Capricorn runs through the Chaco, the Tropic of Cancer just north of Cuba. The area between the Tropics includes Central America, the jungles of the Amazon, the West Indies, the least habitable parts of Africa, the East Indies and the deserts of northern Australia...
Like all capable dictators, Cuba's strong man, Colonel Fulgencio Batista, shows much concern over the common people. Although he holds no elective office, benevolent Tyrant Batista often leaves the studied luxuries of Havana and, like Mexico's Lázaro Cárdenas, gets firsthand impressions in the decidedly less comfortable interior. Cuba's economic pains, including unemployment, have been only partly cured by the U. S. Good Neighbor policy which reduced the U. S. tariff on the island's big product, sugar. Last week, Colonel Batista moved to help Cuba's unemployed...
Among other economies he decided to lop a chunk off the salaries of the "highly paid" State employes and dedicate it to the unemployed. Total economy drive sum: $6,000,000, trifling by U. S. relief standards but nearly 8% of Cuba's revenues, the equivalent of $425,000,000 to the U. S. Treasury...