Word: exodus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stressed what good friends the Communists were; Economic Czar Che Guevara announced grandly that Cuba has received $245 million in loans from "our socialist friends." and other speakers proclaimed that those same rocket-armed friends could destroy any Western Hemisphere nation with ease. By Ship & by Plane. The great exodus from the unhappy island, momentarily halted by invasion, resumed. In the past two years, some 200,000 frightened, disillusioned or dismayed people have fled into exile. They were Cubans of every class save the clergy, who remained to fight Castro in their own way. Now it was the Roman Catholic...
...great is the exodus that the twice-weekly ferry has been sold out for six weeks ahead. In Havana, the Dutch KLM airline, with an average of 60 seats a week out of Cuba, finally had to lock the doors of its ticket office. Pan American was booked solid into August. As each plane landed in Miami, it was greeted by crowds of anxious exiles, beseeching the new arrivals for word of a brother, a husband, a parent remaining in Cuba...
...Republicans decided to vote for the bill, fearing that to do otherwise would cost former Labor Secretary James Mitchell the support of labor in his run for the governorship. Five Massachusetts Republicans also voted "aye," if only to lift Southern wages closer to their own and thus slow the exodus of New England's textile industry to the South...
When the Redevelopment Authority demolishes houses in a renewal area, the administrators try carefully to relocate displaced families in quarters which satisfy all concerned. As John E. Connolly, executive director of the Authority, recently told the City Council, "There is no wholesale mass exodus at one time in any of these project areas. We would hope that before we brought a plan to the council (for approval), we would talk over changes with the people, ask them for suggestions, and try to incorporate them in the plan, if feasible." Apart from having a strong voice in the selection of their...
Sportswear to Spinach. Though the state's fast growth has relieved Florida of its worry about the tourist exodus, it has brought a tangle of new problems. For one. the need for highways is pressing. The state has built 500 miles of four-lane roads in the past five years, but that does not begin to fill the need. Says newly elected Governor Farris Bryant: "We are a score of years and a billion dollars behind in highway construction." As fast as industry is coming into Florida, it still is not coming fast enough to supply the new jobs...