Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trend was now away from the steaming Caribbean coast to the drier country on the Pacific side and to new areas in the Dominican Republic. Symbolizing the changing course of banana empire, United Fruit's "Great White Fleet" would operate on a large scale for the first time in the Pacific. There, presumably, it would continue to accommodate passengers in the spirit of the Great White Fleet's unofficial motto: "Every banana a guest, every passenger a pest...
...United's new plantations on the Pacific coast and in the Dominican Republic, homes for workers-complete with kitchen and Stateside toilet-are as big an advance over older hovels as a Park Avenue apartment over a cold-water flat. Minimum wages, though still less than $1 a day, are half again as high as those paid on Guatemalan-owned plantations...
Born. To Maria Montez, 28, the Dominican Republic's gift to Hollywood, and Jean Pierre Aumont, 33, boyish-looking French cinemactor (The Cross of Lorraine), in 1940 a tankman at Sedan: their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Maria Christine. Weight...
...went well with this venture, Williams planned to make even more of the tropical Caribbean available to ambitious American motorists by ferrying carloads of them to Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, and Mexico. It was a good idea. Here is what happened...
...always paid his way with charm. As Ambassador to the U.S.. his easy style of living almost got him into trouble. When his Government sent him $60,000 for arms purchases, he squandered $35,000 before a gun was bought, was saved only by a check from Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo...