Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Entertained an eminent Good Neighbor: Cuba's stocky, determined President Fulgencio Batista...
...Lejeune, 75, ex-Commandant of the Marine Corps (1920-29), commander of the famed Second Division in World War I; in Baltimore. Chunky, lion-headed, seam-faced, Barrel-chested, he joined the Marines in 1890, commanded the Marines in Panama during the 1903 revolution, put down a revolt in Cuba in 1912, led the occupation of Vera Cruz in 1914. He commanded the Second Division (a regular Army brigade and the 4th Brigade of Marines) from late July 1918 to August 1919. Under him the division captured 3,300 prisoners in the St. Mihiel offensive of Sept. 12-15, broke...
...Lowell Yerex of Central American flying fame asked for two routes each for his TACA and British West Indian Airways. KLM Royal Dutch Air Lines asked a route to the Dutch West Indies. The other three surviving new applicants are Florida-born National Airlines; Aerovias Nacionales Puerto Rico; and Cuba's new Expreso Aero Inter-Americano. Meanwhile Pan American's own belligerent half-subsidiary Panagra (TIME, March 16) still has an application pending for a terminus in Miami, Tampa or New Orleans...
...solve this stuttering maintenance the Army needed an Army man with industry know-how. Glancy's knockabout experience had included engineering in Cuba, managing an iron foundry, a tractor and auto company, and generally trouble shooting for General Motors...
...intimate of "the captains of at least half a dozen liners," and "pen pal of some future desperado." Barbara has met nice people everywhere, "and left them nicely alone." Her heart belongs to Daddy and to a host of "socially maladjusted" bums and crooks she has picked up in Cuba, Paris, Gramercy Park, Chile, Peru, Ecuador...