Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the University has suspended operations at its botanical gardens and research laboratory in Soledad, Cuba, the Castro Government has lost a source of professional advice in crop improvement, reforestation, and applied botany. Since early 1959 the Cuban government has called upon the Adkins Garden and Laboratory for assistance...
Upon the recommendation of Director Duncan Clement, the Corporation last August ceased financial support of the Adkins Lab because of "increased uncertainty in Cuba" and because there was no longer assurance that funds were controlled by University personnel...
Clement pointed out that Cuba profited from the Adkins Lab through the fruits of student research projects, as a place for an academic exchange of views with scholars from several countries, through the Garden's part-time activity in human nutrition and other fields, and also as a tourist attraction...
...example of practical benefits to Cuba from the Adkins Gardens was the work between 1945 and 1960 which developed a chemical-mechanical control method for unruly wood weeds, which had been a menace to agriculture...
Clement still has hopes of returning to Cuba to pick up where he left off. Meanwhile, the corporation will just hold tight. The Adkins staff, now reduced to two, will continue its work in Cambridge but will not take on any new projects...