Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Seeking a Cuban divorce from the former Helen Zimmerman of Cincinnati...
...from a sudden and significant shift of economic and political opinion when the U. S. Rocky Mountain beet producers two years ago began to complain that duty-free Filipino cane sugar was depressing their industry. Louisiana cane-growers felt the same way. Concerns with $800,000,000 invested in Cuban sugar production lined up with them against the Philippines. From the North-west came the cry of dairymen that Filipino coconut oil was competing unfairly with their farm products. From the South cottonseed oil men joined the chorus of complaint. This outcry against the Philippines as an agricultural competitor...
...combat planes were ripping over the area, dropping bombs, strafing the ground with short bursts of machine gun fire. The anti-aircraft gun barked angrily. One bullet knocked the magneto off Capt. Torres Menier's plane. Two more planes, one piloted by Lieut. Rodolfo Herrera, son of the Cuban Army's Chief of Staff, were shot down. All three landed safely...
Meanwhile Cuban cavalry and infantry were surrounding the town. The insurrectos backed their little freight train into the railway tunnel under the old Spanish fortress of Vigia and held the Federals at bay for two more days...
...Cunarder turned south from her North Atlantic lane; the Japanese freighter Toledo Maru came heavily about to go to the rescue; just over the horizon a Cuban sugar tramp crawled patiently on, having no wireless...