Word: cubas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...raised this year from 1.76? to 2? per lb., pros and antis agreed on the probable result. Said the pros (mostly U. S. sugar-beet growers): sugar imports will drop, a young U. S. industry will thrive lustily. Said the antis (led by potent Manhattan bankers with investments in Cuba): in competition with duty-free Hawaii, Porto Rico, the Philippines, Virgin Islands, Cuba will be ruined...
...worst price in its history. At present it is around $1.25 against production costs of between 1.5? and 1.66?. During the first half of the year. U. S. imports of sugar dropped 30% from 3,400,000 to 2,400,000. But imports from Cuba tumbled more than 50% from 2,200,000 to 1,000,000. And Cuban business, said reports last week, is at the lowest ebb for at least six years...
Year and one-half ago Inventor Claude went to Matanzas Bay, Cuba, to build a 12,000-kilowatt plant, big enough to supply a town of 25,000 people. This plant would, he predicted, be 70% efficient and would supply power at half its present cost. Inventor Claude's principle, old to physicists, rests on the fact that water's boiling point is governed by pressure. Lower the pressure sufficiently and water will boil at room temperature. Why not, reasoned Inventor Claude, put warm surface sea water (between 79-86° F. in tropical seas) in a boiler...
...nations have filed 161 specific protests against items in the Hawley-Smoot bill. Canada, best U. S. customer, has made a provisional upward revision of its tariff which would adversely affect 25% of the goods imported by the U. S. and give British imports a much higher preference rating. Cuba was moving in the same direction...
...Camaguey, Cuba, El Camagueyano, leading newspaper, printed an invective against the national lottery as being illicit gambling and a public fraud. Three days later its editorial staff, who like most Cubans habitually buy lottery tickets, collectively won the biggest prize, took...