Word: haiti
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...routes vitally needed, CAB relented, gave K.L.M. and four other lines (all small, all foreign) permission to land at Miami.* Big K.L.M., with all its other regular flights canceled by war in Europe and the Far East, was first to rush in with alternate flights via Jamaica and Haiti...
...known to wear the breath out of younger, slim-waisted officers. A strict disciplinarian in the field, Barney Vogel is an inveterate party goer and party giver-a combination of inclinations usually not found in the Marine Corps. Experience gained in the jungles of Nicaragua and the mountains of Haiti should serve him well in the approaches north of Guadalcanal...
...first and longest-standing boss was fiery, bombastic Smedley D. Butler, famed soldier-orator of the last generation (TIME, June 20, 1927). Vandegrift served with Old Gimlet Eye at Leon and Coyotepe Hill in Nicaragua; landed with him at Veracruz; fought with him in Haiti; helped pacify the Chinese Nationalists in Shanghai and Tientsin, in the late '20s. Through these years he was the apple of Old Gimlet Eye's eye, and earned himself the nickname of Sunny...
...Normandie he meets the glamor girl who appeared to have "rubbed herself with a lotion every morning, and then pasted her clothes on her body"; the old Countess "with a face made of Roquefort" and an "asthmatic and dribbly" Pekingese with eyes "completely outside of his head." In Haiti he meets the elderly lady tourist ("white hair, white shoes, white shawl . . . like . . . the whitewashed front of the hotel") and her ravishing Irish maid, on whose head admiring Frenchmen coyly dropped bougainvillea blossoms. In Paris and Manhattan he meets the Polish photographer Zygmunt Pisik, whose German mistress changed his name...
Besides Peru's 200,000 bales, the um brella already covers Haiti's 20,000 bales, and will be spread to cover Nicaragua's 4-5,000, Paraguay's 30-40,000. In due course it will be extended to Brazil's 2,000,000 bales, the big problem crop which, partly developed by Japanese colonists, has undersold U.S. cotton by 6? a lb., even in Canada...