Word: denims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clara, Camaguey and Oriente rebellion was smoldering precisely as it did 40 years ago when Spain was Cuba's tyrant. Some 2,000 insurrectos were hiding out in the hills at war with the regime of Dictator Gerardo Machado. They were mostly well-horsed, wellarmed, uniformed in blue denim. They fed at any sympathetic farmhouse. In guerrilla bands they were able to swoop on a village, overpower the Rural Guard, canter off to the hills with arms, food, money. More ammunition was smuggled to them from Mexico by small schooners slipping into the bays of the southern coast. From...
...Gosh overalls and work-pants ("They must make good or we will"), made $29,422 against $19,158. Unit sales were 10% ahead of 1931, a fact the management attributed to advertising plus the lowest prices since 1914. The company, 22 years old, uses about 70% of all eastern denim, sells almost all of its product to the retail trade by mail. It urges retailers to keep Oshkosh B'Gosh prices close to cost because "men trade where they buy their overalls...