Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Polo Grounds, Manhattan, Eligio ("Kid Chocolate") Sardinias, jaunty 128-lb. Cuban Negro who has won 167 fights, turned around as the whistle blew and led a flashy jab at the chin of Jack ("Kid") Berg, 135-lb. cockney...
When the tariff on Cuban sugar was raised this year from 1.76? to 2? per lb., pros and antis agreed on the probable result. Said the pros (mostly U. S. sugar-beet growers): sugar imports will drop, a young U. S. industry will thrive lustily. Said the antis (led by potent Manhattan bankers with investments in Cuba): in competition with duty-free Hawaii, Porto Rico, the Philippines, Virgin Islands, Cuba will be ruined...
Last week the antis banded together. Current figures were heartbreaking for many a Cuban sugarman. Since the first of the year, Cuban raw sugar has sold as low as $1.18, the worst price in its history. At present it is around $1.25 against production costs of between 1.5? and 1.66?. During the first half of the year. U. S. imports of sugar dropped 30% from 3,400,000 to 2,400,000. But imports from Cuba tumbled more than 50% from 2,200,000 to 1,000,000. And Cuban business, said reports last week, is at the lowest...
Joining to help Cuba were those interests whose investments are greatest in Cuba. Said the official announcement: "Representatives of Chase National Bank, National City Bank, Royal Bank of Canada, Hayden. Stone & Co.. executives of U. S.-owned companies having production in Cuba and representatives of Cuban-owned estates compose the committee under the Chairmanship of Thomas L. Chadbourne...
...determined effort will be made to solve the problems which have beset the business. . . . While the interests concerned are determined that the Cuban industry will not engage in any further sole sacrifices for the benefit of the sugar growers of the rest of the world, it is understood that they stand ready and willing to join with other suffering producers who have also shown a willingness to cooperate...