Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a similar ratty tail and a limber prehensile snout. Zoologists know it as the family Solenodontidae, which has but a single genus: solenodon. Classified as an extremely primitive form of animal, its skeletal structure is prehistoric. It dwells in rocky, mountain burrows on the islands of Haiti and Cuba only. A victory for any U. S. zoologist is the capture, transportation and sustenance of a solenodon over any length of time. Since October 1935, when Washington's last solenodon died, New York's Zoological Park has had the only one in the U. S. New York...
...John Hay ("Jock") Whitney's Freeport Sulphur Co. showed $1,279,000 for the half, compared to $1,014,000 in the same period a year ago. Not only a sulphur company is Freeport: near Santiago, Cuba it is now producing 10,000 tons of 'manganese per month. After the manganese tariff was halved following the signing of the reciprocal trade pact with Brazil, a big manganese producer, Freeport's Cuban subsidiary languished until prices rose and another $500,000 was invested in new equipment. This year for the first time since 1934 Freeport's Cuban...
...when he upped Assistant Secretaries Sumner Welles and R. Walton Moore to Under Secretary and Counselor, respectively. Last week, carrying that all-purpose shake-up farther, he sent to the Senate the nominations of: Hugh S. Gibson (Ambassador to Brazil) to be Ambassador to Belgium, Jefferson Caffery (Ambassador to Cuba) to be Ambassador to Brazil, J. Butler Wright (Minister to Czechoslovakia) to be Ambassador to Cuba, William H. Hornibrook (onetime Minister to Iran) to be Minister to Costa Rica, Ferdinand L. Mayer (Counselor of Embassy in Berlin) to be Minister to Haiti, Leland Harrison (Minister to Rumania) to be Minister...
...bases across the Pacific, he hopes to be able to land on and take off from a lake 11,000 ft. high. Last year in New Guinea a smaller plane upset in a squall at Port Moresboy. In memory of the episode, the new plane has been named Cuba-a native word for sudden squall...
...their 17 years, but the company still has suits pending against New York City, Fort Worth. Tex. and nearly 100 other cities. Back royalties and settlements secured since 1934 include: Cleveland $85,000, Houston $75,000, Indianapolis $73,000. San Antonio $58,000, Columbus $40,000, Peoria $23,000, Cuba...