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TIME, of Feb. 17, 1930, under Army and Navy, gives 100,000 as the number of members of the Navy participating in this year's joint maneuvers off Guantanamo Bay, "well out of public observation." Fifty thousand would be nearly correct...
While Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson at the London Naval Conference was last week explaining U. S. Navy needs, the U. S. fleet began to assemble at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for winter maneuvers. Well out of public observation, 136 vessels, manned by 100,000 officers and men, will there exhibit to their own satisfaction their sea prowess in attack and defense formation, in target practice, night scouting and all the other simulations of marine warfare. With more than 50 ships already at Guantanamo, the scouting and battle fleets from the Pacific began to pour eastward through the Panama Canal...
Latin Power. Cienfugeos, Guantanamo, Santa Marta, Manzanillo, Sancti-Spiritus, Curityba, Cordoba-strange and Spanish are these names of Latin-American cities. But familiar and North American is their electric light and power machinery, built by U. S. capital, U. S. engineering. They are among the 643 Mexican, Central American and South American communities (population more than 8.000.000) served by subsidiaries of American & Foreign Power Co., Inc., which is in turn a subsidiary of Sidney Zollicoffer Mitchell's Electric Bond & Share...
There is a yarn making the rounds here on how a hilarious sailor strolled down a street in Guantanamo City singing "Me and My Shadow." He was arrested and spent a night in the Hotel De Callaboose. The police, it seems, thought he was making fun of Machado...
...Guantanamo Bay, Cuba...