Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Philippine sugar producers filled their 1934 quota early last summer. The Puerto Rican and Hawaiian quotas were completed in November. But Cuba, noted in the trade as a patient holder, still had several hundred thousand tons of its quota left as late as September. The Cubans had begun to foresee that as soon as the quotas of other producers were exhausted, they would be in control of the U. S. raw sugar market until the 1935 quotas came into effect Jan. 1. Accordingly, in early October, they signed a three-month agreement with U. S. refiners. The agreement: 1) Cuban...
...this point the Cuban agreement pinched and pinched hard. Quotas and agreements had closed every source of sugar-Cuba, the refiners, the vast world surpluses accumulated from other years. There was nothing the shorts could do- except appeal to Washington...
...Havana, Cuba, Dec. 19--The breach between the administration and its determined opponent--the ABC Revolutionary Society--had widened tonight, increasing tension in the capital. Leaders of the ABC left hurriedly for Key West, presumably to confer with their exiled chief, Joaquin Martinez Saenz, in Miami...
Charged with "wilful negligence" were the vessel's Acting Captain William F. Warms and Chief Engineer Eben Starr Abbott. Charged with "fraud, neglect and connivance in violation of law" was Executive Vice President Henry E. Cabaud of New York & Cuba Mail Steamship Co.. which chartered the Morro Castle from its parent company, Atlantic. Gulf & West Indies Steamship Lines (Agwi). Likewise indicted was the company itself, known to the trade as the Ward Line. Released on $2,500 bail each, the individual defendants face a maximum penalty of 10 years' imprisonment, $10,000 fine...
...asthma; in Washington. In 1932 he broke with Dictator Machado and on his overthrow in 1933 became successively Ambassador to the U. S.. Secretary of State. Provisional President, and Ambassador to the U. S. Last May he won a life-long fight when he became Cuba's sole signatory to the abrogation of the Platt Amendment...