Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Negroes, a correspondent for The Nation, a national women's debating champion, a War veteran. The Negroes danced with Mamie and Regina. The intellectuals informed the girls that they were on their way to make an investigation of Cuban tyranny and undercover U. S. capitalist influence in Cuba. Their particular prey was to be ''America's butcher boy in Cuba," U. S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery. Every one of them was, moreover, the official representative of a portentous-sounding Union, League, Association, Order or Committee. And they bought drinks and talked. Mamie and Regina suddenly had visions...
...present the botanical collections of the University are spread throughout the whole area of Cambridge with the Forest in New Hampshire, the Arnold Arboretum in Boston, and the Gardens in Cuba. There are various other botanical groups in the Gray Herbarium, the Botanical Gardens, the Biology Department, and the Biological Museum...
Research fellowships for work at the Harvard University biological station in Soledad, Cuba, have been given to Richard H. Goodwin 2G, of Brookline, and to Albert L. Delisle 3G, of South Hadley Falls...
...Costigan Act, which established a quota system for both imports and domestic production. Hardly less important was a reduction in the tariff on Cuban sugar from 2? to nine-tenths of a cent per lb. Net result was a closed system (taking in the U.S., its insular possessions and Cuba), in which AAA could dictate supply, if not demand. Western sugar beet growers received a fat quota and benefit payment from a processing tax; duty-free producers in Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Philippines got higher prices which partly compensated for the reduced tariff advantages; and Cuba, assured...
...Because Cuba was the chief beneficiary of the new sugar deal, Cuban sugar securities, many of them long since written off by investors as a total loss have come suddenly to life. Cuba Cane products, the island's largest producer, was reorganized last February as Cuban Atlantic. Francisco Sugar's 7½ bonds (in default) have jumped from 23? on the dollar to 44? since the year end. Certificates of deposit for Camaguey's 7% bonds soared from 2½? on the dollar to 12?. Manati's preferred stock climbed from $4 per share...