Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went to Sandhurst, which with some difficulty turned him into a cavalry subaltern. Then he went to Cuba, where he acquired a taste for cigars and siestas. He anticipated Rough Rider Theodore Roosevelt's visit by two years. "Imagination falters," says Guedalla, "at the possibilities of an encounter on the same terrain...
Professor Copeland, who is making a survey of world sugar production, said that if there were no hoarding, there would be enough sugar for everyone. "Cuba alone," he continued, "could satisfy all of the civilian as well as the military needs of the United States. In one year, Cuba's output exceeded 5,000,000 tons and this can be duplicated if there is a need...
...deliveries to industrial users and wholesalers of any more sugar than each took in the corresponding 1940 period. (This order was the main reason for such retail and industrial rationing as has occurred.) > Last week RFC's Defense Supplies Corp. was all set to sign up with Cuba for the largest sugar order ever: $200,000,000 worth, 3,450,000 tons. This is 80% of Cuba's total 1942 crop. > OPA raised its ceilings on raw and refined sugar about 7% (24? per cwt. for raw, 20? for refined). While the chief reason for the raw-sugar...
...Cuba, which has not yet enforced earlier decrees against Japanese and Italians, issued a new decree for internment of 4,084 German residents...
...seas will be no more than tentative, and her eventual domination or destruction will depend upon who holds these islands." Considering U.S. unpreparedness in the Philippines as of the time he was writing, Homer Lea said the islands could be captured by Japanese as easily as the U.S. took Cuba from Spain. In 1941 U.S. preparedness had begun to be more formidable. But only a few weeks ago, U.S. officers in the Philippines told Author-Correspondent Clare Booth about Homer Lea because his conception of a Japanese attack on the Philippines was still valid even in many details...