Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alarmed by the Government's suit, which may be followed by a criminal action for conspiracy in restraint of trade, is shown by the fact that dealings in futures and trading went on as before and the price of both raw and refined sugar climbed to unprecedented heights. Cuban raw sugar went up to 6.25 cents a pound and refined to 9.50 and 9.85. Brokers freely predicted that retail sugar would soon cost housewives 12 cents a pound...
Black boxers have seized the Cuban fancy. Rumored (not without reason) : that Jack Johnson (L'il Artha), sometime heavyweight champion of the world, is matched to meet Sam Langford (Boston Tar Baby), champion of Mexico and Spain, in the Stadium Marina, Havana...
Third, they want to recoup their losses sustained in 1922 when they reduced the price of Cuban sugar for the purpose of "dealing a deathblow to the beet sugar producers of America...
...United States Air Mail Service is endeavoring to reach an agreement with the Cuban Government whereby transportation of air mail by seaplane between Havana and Key West can be maintained throughout the year. Mail from the United States is now received in Cuba by plane daily, but arrangements for return delivery are not completed...
ISLE OF PINES: American citizens protested because on Lincoln's Birthday Cuban police threatened to arrest anyone flying the American flag. The status of the island, taken from Spain in the Spanish-American War, never has been decided. Doubt still exists as to whether it is a possession of the United States or of Cuba...