Word: cubans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...news promptly brought out supplies of whiskey which had been hoarded in stores across the nation. And many a retailer whose shelves are loaded with such substitutes as tequila, vodka, rum and Cuban gins hastily cut prices to clear the way for American whiskey and gin. In Manhattan, prices dropped 50? a bottle. On the West Coast, the drop was as great as 30%. The industry gossiped that distillers would open the whiskey spigot wider immediately, letting out as much as 15% more of their precious stocks...
...noon of counting day, Batista knew that the opposition candidate, Dr. Ramón Grau San Martin, had defeated Batista's close friend and protégé, Dr. Carlos Saladrigas. Not since 1913 had Cuban Government candidates lost at the polls...
...pueblo applauded mightily. A wise oldster among them said: "I think that I have lived to see everything." Then the palace lights went out. The pueblo danced happily into the side streets. The President turned from the balcony. A Cuban era had ended...
...campaign was loud and ebullient, in the Cuban manner. Everyone admitted that cold, efficient Lawyer Carlos Saladrigas had no political appeal, but no one saw how he could lose. Gentle, starry-eyed Professor (of Anatomy) Grau San Martin supplied all the color, roused the mass enthusiasm...
...born 30 years ago in the Cuban colony in Tampa; she, of upper-class Cuban parents in Havana. Raul trouped as a child actor through Central and South America, picked up dance steps as he went along, eventually drifted to Havana where he met Eva at a party. She was a schoolgirl of 15. But Raul wanted her so much for a partner that he married her on the spot. A few months later they made their first big-time appearance at Miami's Roney-Plaza Hotel...