Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...side of Havana's crowded harbor, the, massive crane that unloads the Seatrain stood stark and still. The Seatrain itself, a seagoing ferry that brings 105 loaded U.S. freight cars to Cuba weekly and returns them packed with Cuban freight, languished at its home berth in New Orleans. Cuba's belligerent dock workers, backed by the compliant Grau San Martin Government, had decided that the Seatrain was cutting them out of jobs...
...Spanish historians like Salvador de Madariaga have insisted on its importance. One of the few books to put light on the background is this long autobiography by an exiled Spaniard. It is valuable because it reflects in great detail the peculiar corruption and puzzlement of Spanish life between the Cuban (Spanish-American) and the Civil Wars...
...Cuban Plantation...
...fortune as a sugar planter. Soledad, only Botanical Garden in tropical America not government supported, is under the direction of Dr. Arthur G. Kevorkin, who returns to Cambridge four months each Fall to give a course in tropical Botany. Extensive research is conducted in economic Botany, the year around Cuban climate being particularly adapted to such experiments since the time for securing the result of cross-polination is reduced by half...
...colonos. Yet after giving 53% of his sugar crop to the central (mill) in return for grinding it, and paying for wages, fertilizer, etc., he would have about $64 left of the $4,200 his 1946 crop was supposed to be worth. In the slow, throaty speech of the Cuban countryman, Nicolás summed up his problem: "We would be making some money now but prices have gone so high that we don't make ends meet any better than we did in bad times. Our crops don't sell for three or four times what they...