Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...notices from London that he can tango. According to Chilean experts, what H. R. H. did was something between a tango and a waltz. "This made his steps," wrote one courteous Chilean, "quite the most unusual and newest on the floor." ¶ Entertaining a delegation of more than 100 Cuban business leaders, Britain's "Empire Salesman" used the American technique, served a typically hard "salesman's cocktail." ¶ Yachting on Lake Llanquihue, Chile, whence they proceeded to Lake Fria, Argentina, T. R. H. were serenaded by a Chilean Army band under a tropic moon. The band...
...Evidently Cuban statesmen have come to the conclusion that inflation is the cure for depression and, since they cannot inflate the dollar, will strive to create a currency which they can inflate...
...Cuban House passed, the Senate was on the point of passing last week, a bill empowering Cuban courts to divorce foreigners on any one of 15 convenient counts "without distinction as to whether the said causes have been produced within or without the Republic of Cuba...
...Cuba, are 10,000 acres of manganese ore. By the Treaty of 1902 no duty can be imposed on manganese imported from Cuba. Hence, properly worked, these deposits could compete without difficulty with U. S. manganese mines. During the past year a corps of engineers has been studying these Cuban deposits, reporting back to the U. S. company which sent it. Last week that U. S. company acted and announced it had bought control of Cuban-American Manganese Corp., allowing the minority interest to remain in the shrewd hands of David Marvin Goodrich, chairman of B. F. Goodrich...
...relationship between the two products but to add to Freeport Texas' income from natural resources. Also, Freeport Texas has worked out a new process in treating manganese and will sell it at $24 a ton to compete against Soviet dumping. To pacify U. S. producers who see Cuban manganese coming in without the $11.20 duty other manganese must pay, Freeport Texas promises cooperation, generosity with its new process...