Word: cubas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strange tale of 14 men in a boat came out of the British-owned Bahamas last week. On the beach near Mayari, Cuba, startled fishermen looked up from their work to see a motor launch, propelled by a sail pieced out of dirty shirts and trousers, ground itself in the shallow-water. Out of the rudderless boat tumbled five Americans, nine British West Indian Negroes. Wolfing food and water, the first they had seen in four blistering clays, the tattered survivors gasped out a story of riot, rebellion on Great Inagua,* southernmost of the Bahamas, 50 miles from the Cuban...
...water's edge came Cuban rural policemen, hastily summoned by the fishermen. One look at the small arsenal in the boat, rifles, pistols, gas bombs, rounds of ammunition, and the suspicious local police rushed the refugees off to jail, suspected them of being a revolutionary expedition to Cuba's shores. This week Cuban authorities released them, arranged to ship them back to Great Inagua...
Seeking Divorce. The Countess of Covadonga, onetime Cuban belle Marta Rocafort; from the Count of Covadonga, onetime heir to the throne of Spain, whom she married in July (TIME, July 12); in Havana, Cuba. Cause: "incompatibility of characters...
...satisfy their need for these and other human necessities people trooped last week into 2,747 F. W. Woolworth stores in Canada (143), England (677), Germany (82) and the U. S. and Cuba (1,845). Yet if the phrase "five & ten" still trips off many a buyer's tongue, the "five & ten" has nonetheless joined the buggy and the speakeasy in the outdated past. From 1879 to 1932 Woolworth sold no single item for more than ten cents. Since 1932 WToolworth's U. S., Canadian and Cuban stores have sold items priced up to 20?, since...
...their lengthy battle the sugar refining lobbyists ran up against opposition as tough as Washington could provide: the Roosevelt Administration. Secretary of State Hull objected to the 1937 Sugar Bill because: 1) it cut down Good Neighbor Cuba's raw sugar quota by 6% and Cuba's refined sugar quota by one-fifth-something to make other Good Neighbors suspicious of Mr. Hull's advances; 2) the Supreme Court had already cited U. S. refiners for monopoly. Secretary of the Interior Ickes ranted about lobbyists who would discriminate against his islands: "A form of protection not even...