Word: cubas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Included in the foreign representation are: Japan, Philippines, India, Turkey, Mexico, Bahama Islands, Bermuda, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canal Zone, Channel Islands, Ceylon, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Iran, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, Palestine, Poland, Puerto Rico, Scotland, Siam, South Africa, Venezuela and Wales...
...Cuba heartily joined the goodwill flight plan, added three airplanes and her best flyers to the single machine of the Dominican Republic. Suddenly last week their months of flight talk were shocked to a dismayed whisper as word was received that seven of the nine flyers, the whole Cuban contingent, had been killed in an almost incredible triple collision in the mountains of Colombia...
...Sadly Cuba decreed two days' national mourning, dispatched the gunboat Patria for the bodies and a seven-man commission to investigate the freak accident. Promptly Mexico's Congress voted three planes, headed by their army air ace Colonel Roberto Fierro and carrying both Mexican and Cuban flags, to replace Cuba's lost squadron. The flight is due in the U. S. in January and reluctantly its sponsors realized that the Columbus Memorial Lighthouse had probably been brought nearer by misfortune...
Sugar has been overwhelmed by more than a decade of overproduction. In 1926 Cuba tried a single-handed experiment in limitation, but as she cut her production, rival nations expanded theirs. Cuba then sponsored the plan of Manhattan Lawyer Thomas L. Chadbourne whereby all sugar-producing nations adopted export quotas. Put into effect in 1931, the Chadbourne plan failed to raise prices because its quotas were too high in the face of declining world sugar demand. In 1932 the average world price of sugar fell to .9? a lb., well below the cost of production. Since then it has never...
...latest job for Boss Batista and the Herald Tribune, Laurence De Besa went back to the country which had long since banished his friend, Boss Machado. Undisturbed that ex-Sergeant Batista, who now runs Cuba with his army, was in fact the man who took greatest advantage of the Machado ouster, Writer De Besa soon was one of Batista's cronies. In the $32,000 worth of space in the Herald Tribune which he sold in Cuba, Mr. De Besa did not let his dictatorial friend Batista down. Wrote Mr. De Besa: "He will continue his role...