Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This course, established 10 years ago, offers an opportunity to spread afar the ideals of Perkins Institution. Several of the 120 students who have taken it came from such widely separated countries as Holland, Germany, Alaska, Japan, Hawall, Mexico, Columbia, Porto Rico and Cuba...
...bottom to a shore station. Professor Claude believes that power can be generated at unheard-of cheapness by utilizing the temperature differential between the cold bottom-water and water from the ocean's surface warmed by a tropic sun. Twice he has tried and failed at Matanzas Bay, Cuba, to lower a mile-long pipe six feet in diameter into water nearly one-half mile deep. Both times, subsurface currents and pressures defeated him, sweeping away his costly apparatus (TIME, July 7 et ante). Last week, with 6,000 ft. of experimental pipe, he tried again at Matanzas, this...
What next? Cuba is ripe for revolution, her President Machado being considered by large sections of the population as a mere puppet of Wall Street. In Venezuela, where the U. S. has enormous oil interests, rules senile Political Boss Juan Vincente Gomez, a more cruel tyrant than Dr. Irigoyen ever was. Brazil is saddled with the worst overproduction situation (coffee) in the whole western hemisphere. Chile with her nitrates is apparently quiet in a dictator's iron hand. In any of these countries revolutions might result in the seizure of power by a group determined to resist what...
...managed to give him an education at that institution. After the Spanish War he secured a captain's commission in the Army Quartermaster Corps, distinguished himself only by transporting 557 horses and mules from Portland, Ore. to Manila without the loss of an animal. He was recalled from Cuba by President Roosevelt in 1908 to begin his White House service. A bachelor with gayety, tact, discretion, he gave himself up entirely to his President for work or play...
...Cuba. Prolonged rioting between Liberals and Conservatives caused a threat of martial law in the town of Maximo Gomez, Matanzas Province. At Cruces, Santa Clara Province, horn-spectacled President Gerardo Machado neatly nipped another revolution in the bud by arresting 20 members of the Nationalist (anti-Machado) party, disclosed a plot to raid the Cruces army post, seize the arsenal stored there...