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...story was scripted by Director Huston and Peter Viertel from an episode in the novel Rough Sketch by Robert Sylvester. It concerns the hard-jawed heroics of a young Cuban-American revolutionist (John Garfield), who recruits a handful of assistant revolutionaries, including a slant-eyed girl named China Valdes (Jennifer Jones). Garfield puts his crew to work digging a tunnel from the cellar of Jennifer's home to a nearby cemetery. His lurid plan: to blow the dictator and his cabinet to smithereens as they stand about the family tomb of a bigwig senator whom Garfield has already earmarked...
...Week's 1947 Price- Closing Earning Earnings Stock Price per Share Ratio Cudaby $12⅛ $ 4.32 2.7 Armour 13⅜ 4.85 2.8 Swift 36 5.70 6.3 J. P. Stevens 30½ 8.24 3.5 Botany Mills 22 16.50 1.3 Cuban-American Sugar 13¾ 6.13 2.3 Cuban-Atlantic Sugar...
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...
Freeport Sulphur (which reported a net of $2,200,762, up 46.8% from 1938) owns 90% of Cuban-American Manganese Corp. The discoverer of Cuban manganese was a Rough Rider, John Campbell Greenway, later a famed Arizona rancher and copper tycoon who married a schoolmate of Eleanor Roosevelt. Rough Rider Greenway kicked up a lump of ore on a hike over a dusty Cuban road in '98, showed his find to fellow Lieut. David M. Goodrich. Easier to work than U. S. ore because it lies close to the surface, Cuban deposits were far lower grade than the Russian...
...prices of Russia or the Gold Coast but is able to compete because it is free (by the U. S.-Cuban treaty of 1903) of the 2? duty on other imports of the metal, has lower shipping costs. Out of orders for the U. S. Government's manganese stock pile (now only 13 days' supply at the 1939 steel production rate) and for the steel industry's private hoard (15 months' supply), Cuban-American after a deficit of $22,059 m 1938, and three deficit quarters in 1939, turned the corner. Result: a 285% increase...