Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...early dawn a detachment of Cuban soldiers surrounded a farmhouse near the sponge-fishing port of Batabanó. Under a heap of palm leaves, in slacks and sport shirt, they found quaking ex-Colonel José Pedraza, their former Chief of Staff, until recently in exile. They took him and five civilians caught with him to the military prison in ancient Cabanas Fortress across the harbor from Havana. So ended last week a revolution that never took place...
President Ramón Grau San Martín signed a decree last week, granting $772,000 for a Workers' Palace in Havana. A block long, with a huge auditorium, luxurious offices, it will serve as headquarters for the Communist-led Confederation of Cuban Workers. Nowhere else in Latin America will labor have such a home...
Behind the grant lay a snarl of politics, tangled even for Cuba. In last year's election the Confederation of Cuban Workers fought against Grau, supported President Fulgencio Batista, who had legalized the Communist Party (now called the Popular Socialist Party), helped its labor branch develop political force...
...tight-strung jai alaiers (16 Cubans, seven Spaniards, three Mexicans, one Brazilian) now playing in Miami and making $250 to $650 a month for their work, stepped up their frenzied game to win the new audiences for keeps. The present top performer is a veteran Spaniard, 40-year-old, balding José Garate, who played seven seasons in Shanghai before the war. The box-office star is Enrique ("Superman") Vallejo, a none-too-agile, 191-lb. Cuban who whips the ball with terrific force. Win, lose or draw, he is billed - and viewed by many female fans - as the Errol...
...pinch in shipping is still too tight. Furthermore, U.S. beet-sugar growers harvested only 1,100,000 tons this year-more than last year, but still a big 500,000 tons less than the 1942 crop. Also, in 1944 about 900,000 tons of Cuban production were diverted from sugar to high-test molasses for industrial alcohol...