Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next U.S. Ambassador to Mexico will be one of the State Department's ablest, busiest career diplomats. For last week President Roosevelt chose George Strausser Messersmith, now Ambassador to Cuba, to succeed Josephus Daniels in Mexico City...
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...that flight the Cuba made a 3,300-mile hop across the South Atlantic, added on an 800-mile detour around bad weather and landed with gas in its tanks...
...Havana one day last week five Cubans boarded a Pan American Clipper, took off on the first leg of a 1,200-mile junket to Washington. Handpicked by President Batista, they were to start negotiations for the possible sale of Cuba's entire 1942 sugar crop-some 4,000,000 tons worth at least...
Advantage to Cuba is that it would help stabilize the island's mercurial economy. But many Cubans (especially sugar growers and grinders) are not too fond of stability when sugar prices are rising. The U.S. negotiators may run into trouble aplenty. In Havana last week, an executive of the Cane Planters Association blasted the plan, declared: "We believe the 1942 crop can be sold advantageously at market prices during the year...