Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whatever Habaneros wanted-rest, fun, comfort, or bargain shopping-Miami had. A combination of inflated prices in Cuba plus fast, cheap air service had launched a boom in northbound tourist travel; Havana, long celebrated as a tourist spot in its own right, since last spring has sent some 50,000 tourists to Florida...
...going alone to Miami . . .? Don't worry. You'll have no trouble meeting an attractive American girl, avid for company and distraction. But don't think you are in Cuba. After the dance, the drinks and the laughs, she will tell you she's sleepy . . . and there ends the night of adventure. Perhaps there are persons who have better luck, but that's the rule...
...percentage in a flour mill. He runs the salt and match monopolies, gets a percentage from the electric power companies. Lately, son Tachito has been cut in on the gravy. He got a 40% share in a new airline hauling mining machinery from the U.S. and meat to Cuba. When a Nicaraguan worked up a profitable new business shipping monkeys to the U.S., Tachito heard about it. Now a Somoza is in monkey business...
Night Flight. When World War II's democratic wave washed out dictators in El Salvador, Guatemala and Cuba, Tacho had some anxious moments. The U.S. was talking about Latin American dictatorial regimes, and Tacho, who once said he intended to rule for 40 years, decided that it was time to put on a democratic show. He would let the country choose his successor...
Actually, shocked Montevideo had seen no more violence than Cuba and Venezuela saw when The Iron Curtain was shown in Havana and Caracas. But Uruguay is a republic where order and freedom of expression are part of the national creed.* Even the Uruguayan Communist party, which polled 4% of the votes at the last presidential election, has been accepted as a legal, peaceful political movement...