Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...artists formed a Continental Committee of Art for Victory, planned a series of propaganda tours. Argentina's Antonio Berni would tour the east coast of South America. Chile's Antonio Quintana would tour Chile, Bolivia and Paraguay. Siqueiros undertook a modest swing through Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Cuba, Mexico...
...Admiral's voyages, Morison cruised the Caribbean by yawl (1936-1937): traced Columbus travels along the coast of Santo Domingo (1939); crossed the Atlantic from Palos, Portugal (1939) in an expedition consisting of a 147-foot schooner and a 47-foot ketch; and combed the coast of Cuba and the Bahamas (1940) in the ketch. The actual writing of "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" began at sea, off the Azores in 1939, and was published in 1941. Called "Columbus Junior" by his friend, Franklin Roosevelt, Morison is the leading authority on the discoverer of America...
...harrumphed 58-year-old Major General (retired) Frank Rudolph Schwengel, president of Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc., "that the finely made beverage spirits produced by American distillers for the war effort should go into hair tonic, cosmetics and shoe polish, while substandard commercial alcohol from Cuba goes into the American stomach...
Hope Dashed. There was only one flaw: war industry (synthetic rubber, explosives, etc.) is the big consumer of alcohol today, not hair tonic. And there is not enough alcohol. Smart sugarmen in Cuba and the rest of the Caribbean have converted all sugar possible into liquor instead of into the good alcohol base, blackstrap molasses. Reason: they get about $1 (800%) more a gal. Last month Foreign Economic Administrator Leo Crowley tried to force Cuban producers back into the molasses and industrial-alcohol business by limiting the amount of potable alcohol the U.S. would import...
...Schwengel plan threatened to up set this. Forthwith FEA killed the plan. The U.S., said FEA coldly, was already set to get Cuba's entire sugar surplus, and that surplus would all be needed for strictly undrinkable war purposes...