Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spang into the middle of a mutiny against Christopher Columbus (Fortunio Bononova). For this episode Ira Gershwin has written the most trickily tanglefooted of his lyrics and Kurt Weill, assisted by Baritone Carlos Ramirez, has composed a raving parody of wopera. The mutiny ends happily when Columbus spots Cuba (Sloppy Joe's, complete with girls) through his spyglass...
...Latin Americans fought hard for the recognition of "regionalism" at San Francisco. But such men as Brazil's Velloso or Cuba's Belt were not enemies of world organization. Their nations had relied so long upon the U.S. for their fundamental security that they could no more bring themselves to abandon this shield than the U.S. Congress could bring itself to shift its main reliance from the Army and the Fleet to the Security Council...
...Although the big sugar production of Java, the Philippines and Europe's sugar-beet fields was in enemy hands, in 1943 the U.S. made Cuba agree to cut its sugar crop (because of a temporary shipping shortage...
...Open negotiations to buy Cuba's and Puerto Rico's 1946 crops at once. (Reluctantly the U.S. has raised the price of raw Cuban sugar from 2.65? a lb. to 3.1? and probably will have to go higher, but it is just as important to make the contract before planting instead of just before the harvest, as has been done...
Government bungling (failure to offer the Cubans enough to induce heavy planting), the use of 900,000 tons of sugar to make synthetic rubber, plus 26% greater demands by the services, plus strikes in Puerto Rico, plus a drought in Cuba, had cut the amount of sugar available for U.S. civilians from last year's 6.1 million tons to less than five million...