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Word: cubana (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt is apparently going to have an early chance to show how sincere he was in his annunciation of a new and more altruistic policy in South and Central American diplomacy. Yesterday in Cuba the government assumed control of the Compania Cubana de Electricitad after the company had failed to come to an agreement with its employees and a strike resulted. The company is an affiliate of the Electric Bond and Share Company and represents an investment of about two hundred million dollars; consequently there is bound to be a terrific howl raised in Wall Street for American intervention...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 1/16/1934 | See Source »

...salesman can now hurry with never an hour lost on a train. For Pan American Airways Corp. (holding company for the system) announced the purchase of practically all of Cuba's air transport industry, the 14 airports, eleven planes, 850 miles of route, of Campania Nacional Cubana de Aviation, S. A. Though Compania Nacional will be operated as an independent unit, its personnel kept intact (largely as balm to Cuban national feeling), it will be coordinated with Pan American's three trunk lines. North-bound passengers from Barranquilla and Jamaica can change at Cienfuegos to plane instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Pan American Pushes On | 4/25/1932 | See Source »

Eleven Years, Most important boy in Connecticut's Rumsey Hall school last week was small Paul Vecker, 11, son of General Manager W. Paul Vecker of Compania Cubana de Electricidad. Unescorted, tugging at a heavy suitcase, small Paul went to Newark airport, boarded an Eastern Air Transport plane for Miami, there to change to Pan American Airways, to spend his Easter holidays with his parents in Cuba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Flights & Flyers, Apr. 6, 1931 | 4/6/1931 | See Source »

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