Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week bought an estimated 9 million tons of sugar from Cuba, the island's crop for the next two years. On paper, the figure looked big. But for the U.S. housewife it would mean no relief for her aching sweet tooth. There would be no more sugar available. Sugar rationing would still be here for a long time to come...
This conservatism conceals a personal history flavored with the dash of foreign engineering ventures. Trained as an engineer ('02), Durant received his degree and spent the next year in private enterprise. Between 1911 and '30, Durant was intermittently occupied with the construction of harbor works in Cuba, bridges in Paraguay and the mammoth International Telegram and Telephone exchange in Madrid. In 1934 he left a post as supervisor of public works for the State of New York to accept a surprise offer as Business Manager of Harvard, a post created...
Hearstly Hoax. In 1898, Hearst sent him to Cuba to wait for the Spanish-American War. (When Remington complained that there was no war, Hearst, in a cable that unfriendly Hearst biographers love to quote, wired: "You furnish the pictures; I'll furnish...
Died. Federico Laredo Bru, 71, one-time (1936-40) frontman President of Cuba for his boss and successor, Colonel Fulgencio Batista; in Havana...
...Without a deal, she will have to take her chances at selling her wheat in the years of world surpluses which will come some day. What added heat to her anger was the fact that she had only wanted to do what the free-trading U.S. is doing with Cuba-i.e., buying her sugar crop at a guaranteed price below the world price. And Britain, which was forced to ration bread last week for the first time in her history, was angry because she will have to pay more for her daily bread...