Word: cubas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Join the Navy and see the world" became more than a slogan to 89 members of the University Unit, Naval Reserve Training Corps, this summer, when they went on the annual training cruise down the Atlantic coast to Cuba and back...
Havana, with the attractions of Sloppy Joe's cuba libres and bacardis, and with a dance thrown for the Unit at the Biltmore Yacht Club, was the most popular stop on route. Every man had guest privileges at the Havana clubs, through special dispensation of the U. S. Ambassador...
...other stops were made at New York, for the Fair, and at Guantanamo, a naval base in Cuba. A stop in Charleston, South Carolina, was cancelled on account of infantile paralysis...
...granaries were bulging with 5,300,000,000 bushels of grain, of which the U. S. held 3,500,000,000. Two and a half million tons of sugar were on hand, the U. S. beet and cane crop was estimated at 2,100,000 more and in overproducing Cuba a crop of 3,500,000 was in prospect -all ample to meet U. S. needs (annual consumption: 6,600,000 tons) with plenty left over for the perennial Cuban surplus. For the fall killing there were a bumper pig crop, ample supplies of other meats except lamb, in which...
...Cuba's tobacco was due for a fall, sugar for a rise. Havana was proposed as a free port, where both sides could pick up the raw materials of death from neutral sellers...