Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Biggest foreign supplier (25% in 1940) has been Russia. Last month the Nazis captured the Nikopol manganese beds in the Ukraine, but the blockade has cut off Russian shipments anyway. Except for Cuba's 10% contribution, most other U.S. manganese supplies come by long, dangerous hauls from the Gold Coast, South Africa, India, Brazil. Federal stockpile builders have accumulated enough warehoused manganese (some 2,000,000 tons) to last for two years of arms-making-but nobody knows how much will be needed before the war is over...
...Calling it "The Squared Circle," in three issues she filled the right-hand side with pro-Roosevelt editorials. The left-hand side was filled with pro-Willkie editorials by her husband of two years, Harry Frank Guggenheim, 51-year-old copper tycoon, ex-Ambassador to Cuba, aviation patron. ("My husband is traditionally a Republican. I'm not traditionally anything...
...normal times. China has a slight but chronic deficit. Three other Asiatic countries (Burma, Thailand, French Indo-China) produce almost the entire world's supply of commercially exported rice. Some years they export as much as 6,000,000 tons among them to such countries as India, Malaya, Cuba, France...
South and Central America can also point to a sizable representation in the Class of '45, with Argentine, Brazil, the Canal Zone, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela combining to contribute a total of ten students...
Died. Mario Garcia Menocal, 74, twice President of Cuba (1913-21); in Havana. U.S.-educated, he was manager of the giant Cuban-American Sugar Co. plantation at Chaparra when he first entered politics in the early 1900s. Cuba's World War I sugar boom carried him into his second term. His Presidential career and the boom collapsed together...