Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...since the attitude of the almighty U.S. is much more important to the world at large than the opinion of insignificant Cuba, don't you think it would help to alleviate the sufferings of a sick humanity to have [the Cuban delegates] assist the U.S. in framing its foreign policy? At least, they may teach the U.S. State Department that "might" is not always necessarily "right...
Belgium's exiled King Leopold III stepped off a chartered Dutch freighter at Havana with his beauteous commoner wife, the Princess de Rethy, his begoggled son, Prince Baudouin, and 40 pieces of baggage. Cuba's Major General Genovevo Perez Damera and a battery of cameramen gave the party a royal welcome (see cut). The Hotel Nacional apologetically provided the best in the house-a mere presidential suite, but free. Cuban Sugaristocrat José Goméz Meña threw a great big garden party. After two weeks of "recreation and study" (the Princess raised some eyebrows...
Economy Measure. In Baltimore, Philip Epstein paid $1 and costs for slugging a hypnotist, whom he accused of causing Mrs. Epstein to yearn for "castles in the air. . . trips to Cuba...
Dependent on the U.S. for its motor fuel supply, Cuba was going to be on short rations at least until spring eased the U.S. shortage and released tankers for the Cuban run. As a stopgap move, the government last week ordered sugar-mill owners to put aside 40 million gallons of blackstrap molasses for the making of alcohol. Combined with gasoline, the alcohol would soon go into motorists' tanks as carburante national, a low-grade, high-knock fuel...
...week's end, Menéndez' body lay in state in the great marble Capitolio in Havana, where thousands passed his bier. All over Cuba sugar workers staged brief protest strikes. Cuba's Communists, who had been wasting away for months, now had a martyr, and they would make the most...