Word: cubas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hill, nor was his career buried when as a first lieutenant he sweated for two years through the jungles of the Philippines hunting down Aguinaldo. In 1902 his onetime commander, then in the White House, remembered him and sent him, as second secretary, to the U. S. Legation in Cuba. As a blasphemous trooper he was no more fitted for diplomacy than, as a court reporter, he had been fitted for soldiering...
Terror-ridden Cuba found its tiniest terrorist last week when one Rafael Tocoronte, 13, was caught heaving a bomb in midtown Havana. To police he bragged that he had been planting bombs for several years, "to help the cause." He proved it by producing a score of bombs freshly made in his home. The judge of one of the "urgency courts" President Carlos Mendieta has instituted to fight the Terror sentenced Moppet Rafael to six years in the juvenile penitentiary...
...zoological research, most of which is carried on in collaboration with the tropical stations of other colleges. Special emphasis is placed on the study of economic plants, with one hundred acres of the Institutions devoted solely to these. This station has had influence on the economic destiny of Cuba, for the study of sugar cane has enabled the Cubans to produce a better grade of sugar cane and to maintain its place at the head of the sugar industry...
...piece of the Panamanian Isthmus and took it for a Canal. But before diggers dared pervade that fever-infested series of swamps called "White Man's Grave," Sanitarian William Crawford Gorgas went ahead, chasing away the mosquitoes. Dr. Gorgas had learned about the fever-bearing mosquitoes in Cuba where Dr. Carlos Juan Finlay had indicted the insects and Dr. Walter Reed had convicted them. Their work enabled Dr. Gorgas to help make Havana the healthiest large city in the world, the Panama Canal an actuality. Similar work practically drove yellow fever from all North America, the West Indies...
...Cuba, Spain, Mexico, France, Irish Free State, Italy, Panama, Belgium, Argentina...