Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...abuilding at Akron expressly for military use, the Navy wanted to have the Los Angeles scout experimentally with the fleet. For this, the express permission of Great Britain, France and Japan was necessary. Last week, permission granted, orders were posted for the Los Angeles to proceed to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, thence for Panama, to join the Navy's winter maneuvers...
Resentment against Dictator Machado's high-handed ways mounted last week to the Cuban Supreme Court bench itself. In a unanimous verdict the court held that his recent decree suppressing Cuba's Spanish language newspapers is unconstitutional...
...There is not now and there will not be in the future under my administration any censorship on outgoing news about Cuba. . . . Your own United Press leased wire is in constant and unhampered contact with New York. ... I have, to my very great regret . . . recently been compelled, in the interests of the continuance of public order, to suppress the publication of certain old and well known Havana newspapers...
...quota scheme provides that each country shall reduce production for the next five years by the extent to which there was overproduction last year. In addition, one-fifth of the accumulated surplus of each country each year will be regarded as new production for five years. For example, Cuba in 1929-30 produced 4,670,000 tons, which exceeded consumption by 800,000 tons. Its surplus is 1,500,000 tons, which will be marketed at the rate of 300,000 tons a year. Production will be reduced by the sum of excess production. Thus the marketable quota will...
...addition to Cuba having a surplus of 1,500,000 tons, Java has a surplus of 500,000 tons, Europe...