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...Seniors. The date should he announced this week. There will be an assessment of a certain amount upon each Junior. So now is the time for all good Juniors to come to the aid of their party and see that Seniors drink plenty of water just before the fiesta...

Author: By Ens. T. X. cronin, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 8/4/1944 | See Source »

...Fiesta. Omaha simultaneously celebrated Don't Spit on the Sidewalks Week and Clean Up Your Plate Week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 22, 1944 | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

...Fiesta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: LETTERS | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

...been benefited by the better price of sugar during the past year, but that "Cuba is wallowing in money" certainly gives the wrong impression. The working class would like to find some of this money your reporter writes about that we are "wallowing in" and join the "Grande Fiesta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: LETTERS | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

This boom has meant one grande fiesta for some 4,250,000 life-loving Cubans. They are guzzling more sweet-tasting rum, screaming at more cock fights, buying more radios and automobiles (when they can get them), using more telephones. The party was pepped up last November when all salaries were boosted 10 to 25% by law (in April minimums were set at $45 a month in towns, $39 out-of-town). The lid almost blew off in January when some 400,000 sugar workers had their wages hiked 50%. Part of these fat raises have since been wiped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: High Jinks in Cuba | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

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