Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Business. Chevrolets, Buicks, Packards are favorite Cuban cars, but with business 60% below normal Cubans are pinching their gasoline pennies, watching anxiously to see whether the national sugar industry on which everything depends will be "saved" by the Chadbourne plan now being negotiated in Berlin (TIME, Dec. 15 & 29). Plan: Cuba and all other leading sugar countries would restrict output, hope thus to raise the price of sugar (now scraping bottom at 1.4 cents...
Foreign Affairs. Cubans take little or no interest in British, French, German or Italian affairs, were passionately concerned last week about whether King Alfonso XIII is soon to be dethroned and a Spanish republic proclaimed. Edward of Wales will shortly arrive in Havana, but Cuban newspapers (until suppressed last week) were apathetic toward H. R. H., unstirred even by red-hot British despatches that Edward of Wales' Argentine tango is now almost perfect...
Education. All high schools, normal schools and the National University continue "closed indefinitely." Cuban parents who want their children to study (instead of playing revolution as most Cuban students do) are sending them to Europe, especially to Paris...
Sport. Newsreels have shown to millions of U. S. citizens the lightning-fast Cuban handball game jai alai (pronounced "hy aly"). Unknown to U. S. sport addicts is "Cuba's Babe Ruth," $2,000-a-month Jose Gutierrez, No. 1 handballer...
...Cuban National Lottery will be made bigger, better under a proposed law, is expected to net the Cuban treasury a profit of $10,000,000 next year. At the National Casino in Marianao, Havana, roulette (with two zeroes), Baccarat, Faro, Craps and almost every other gambling game known to man are played, are legal for both sexes. But women are not allowed to attend the better burlesque shows in Havana...