Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...posted steel price threatened to rise; the Temporary National Economic Committee called steelmen to Washington, argued for low prices, hinted at an anti-steel publicity campaign; the steel price stayed put. When housewives started to hoard retail sugar (TIME, Sept. 23), the President untied import quotas; in came Cuban sugar, down went prices. Copper began to move upwards; the President said the price was being watched, and the move slackened. Few weeks ago domestic mercury sold as high as $200 a flask. So the Administration stopped issuing export licenses for domestic mercury (a strategic material) and the price fell...
...vacation city. From six to nine the tiny Nacional bar was crowded with delegates of all nationalities, newsmen, wives and secretaries of the delegates. To the Florida, Zaragozana or Paris went the visitors to dine, then back to the Nacional for moonlight dancing or to any pack-jammed little Cuban cabaret. One night in Cathedral Square a Spanish dancing show celebrated, a day late, the 157th birthday of South America's Hero No. 1, Simon Bolivar...
...long finger of Cuba poked itself compellingly into the world's ribs last week. Scores of Lions swarmed into Havana for their international conference, found themselves in the middle of a Cuban Presidential election. Amid the traditional Latin-American accompaniment of sporadic shooting scraps, stocky Colonel Fulgencio Batista scored a thumping triumph as expected, complacently proclaimed "overwhelming victory is assured in all six provinces...
Maneuvering to up their quotas in the current session, the Mountain beet lobby and its friendly rival, the Cuban cane lobby, have sought to limit imports from U. S.-owned sugar countries. This "unholy alliance" drew Humanitarian Roosevelt's wrath-as it would also draw the wrath of Libertarian Wendell Willkie. President Roosevelt reminded Congress that Hawaiians. Puerto Ricans and Virgin Islanders "are American citizens . . . with local governments that lack the protection of statehood," i.e. Senators...
From San Salvador, the Mary Otis will follow Columbus' route to Cuba, and try to settle a dispute as to where he landed there. Puerto Gibera is a "good guess," the professor said, but at least two other Cuban towns also claim the honor and have erected monuments to celebrate the event...