Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high-test molasses, one of the chief raw materials in making industrial alcohol, which is essential in smokeless powder (TIME, Oct. 13). By purchasing the entire crop, furthermore, the U.S. would avoid future open-market competition-especially with Britain. Already this year such head-to-head bidding has lifted Cuban sugar prices 230% to 2.5? a lb., highest since...
Died. Mario Garcia Menocal, 74, twice President of Cuba (1913-21); in Havana. U.S.-educated, he was manager of the giant Cuban-American Sugar Co. plantation at Chaparra when he first entered politics in the early 1900s. Cuba's World War I sugar boom carried him into his second term. His Presidential career and the boom collapsed together...
...Every night these women rushed me," reported Mexican Cinesinger Tito Guizar after a trip to Cuba. "They followed me . . . kissed and hugged me ... cut locks from my hair . . . cut pieces of my suits . . . undershirts and underwear. . . ." Promptly Cuban film exhibitors banned Guizar from' the country's screens for what Cuba declared was an insult to the dignity of its women, ∙ ∙ John Steinbeck's Mexican documentary film, The Forgotten Village, was banned as "indecent" by New York's State Board of Censors. It contains childbirth sequences. ∙ ∙ Mae Murray, suing Billy...
...leaving, had asked that her allowance be reduced to $1,000 monthly. ∽∽ Princess Olga Troubetzkoi of the Philadelphia Social Register was arrested for running a high-toned bawdyhouse in Manhattan,∽∽ Ex-King Carol of Rumania was reported dickering for admission to the U.S. Reason: Cuban society wasn't having any of Elena Lupescu...
...week, generations of Yale men have dropped their themes in a box outside Professor Berdan's foul-smelling office. The door is always open and Professor Berdan, smoking an overpowering Latakia tobacco in a meerschaum pipe loves to invite his students in, insist that they smoke a strong Cuban cigaret, talk to them for hours on end. He makes it a point to read every theme (200 a week) himself. In class he rips the themes to pieces, likes to make his students angry so that they will fight back. Once he asked his class for their opinions...