Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other cordage, the Hemisphere has a wealth of fibers. Chief commercial ones are sisal and henequen, which grow more or less prolifically in Yucatan, Cuba, Haiti, other parts of Latin America. Exotic fibers-caroa, guaxima, papoula de Sao Francisco from Brazil, cabuya from Ecuador, pita and fique from Colombia-might replace jute and hemp if they could be produced and processed in sufficient quantity (which would involve new machinery, labor, transportation...
...henequen, sisal, and every other known western fiber but sansevieria, which grows wild in Cuba, lack the resistance to salt water that makes abacá a naval necessity. Moreover, while it takes only four months to get a usable hemp crop, it takes three years to produce sisal, five to seven years for henequen. And low world prices for jute and abacá have kept Hemisphere acreage...
...British radio announcement that Swordfish torpedo planes were being based in Cuba to aid United States naval and army air forces was confirmed by an official British source in Havana...
Nonetheless, grain alcohol will probably help to relieve the sugar shortage. It may also be relieved, paradoxically, by the shipping shortage. Of the sugar which the U.S. has bought from Cuba, 1,500,000 tons is earmarked for Lend-Lease shipments to the Allies. If the shipping is not available to carry it across the oceans, some of it may take the shorter route...
This is Hearst's third war. For his first war, the Spanish-American War of 1898, he sent Richard Harding Davis, a half dozen other star correspondents to Cuba. A year before the Maine disaster, Hearst is supposed to have wired Artist Frederic Remington: "You furnish the pictures, I'll furnish...