Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bonds. After a four-year breather, Kirkeby started buying again. He concentrated on class hotels because "it costs no more for maids to clean an $8 room than for a $3 one." He picked up the Nacional in Cuba, the Beverly Wilshire and the Sunset Towers in Los Angeles. Then, backed by Chicago's sewer contractor Steve Healy, he bought Chicago's 3,000-room Stevens from the Army. (The Stevens, too, was subsequently sold.) But Kirkeby's biggest splash was the Hampshire House, ankle-deep in carpeting, knee-deep in income...
...that nickel prices were so low that the U.S. Government had to subsidize Cuban mines during the war to enable them to compete with Inco. This seemed to sharpen Justice's point that Inco owns all economically workable nickel deposits in the Western Hemisphere. Submarginal mines such as Cuba's can compete only with subsidies...
...best organized and best disciplined Communist party in the New World showed its strength last week. For eight hours on May Day, Cuba's workers downed hammers, laid sickles aside. While everything in the country stopped but a few trains and trams, members of the Communist-controlled Cuban Confederation of Labor swung past Havana's presidential palace to the conga beat of a hit tune called America Immortal. Their secretary, Communist Làzaro Peña, stood with President Ramón Grau San Martin as he reviewed the parade from his balcony...
...party's 151,000 cell-builders manage Cuba's organized labor, own one of Havana's big newspapers, swing the voting balance in the Senate, take a noisy if not decisive part in President Grau's policymaking. Through indirect control of the Ministry of Labor, the party forced the Government to seize Havana's U.S.-owned streetcar lines and a slaughterhouse in order to enforce labor demands. The working arrangement with the Grau regime helped put Communist Party Chief Juan Marinello in the Senate Vice-President's chair, may help the Communists pick...
Built by ex-Dictator General Gerardo Machado, Cuba's Huey Long, the $20 million Capitolio has been called a monument to graft. The yellow diamond, en circled by gold from pen points which had signed contracts for the building and the central highway, had been donated by the contractors and the workers. Before that, the bauble is said to have belonged successively to an Austrian nobleman, an Eng lish collector, a Paris jeweler. Skeptics claimed it was a fake. Either way, it had been a satisfactory zero milestone to measure off Cuba's central highway...