Word: havana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...majority of U. S. citizens, Hi-Li is the childish pastime of bouncing a rubber ball off the face of a wooden paddle. But those who have ever spent a night in Miami or Havana know that "high lie" is the way you pronounce the Cuban national game, spelled jai alai and played by scooping the ball in mid-air with shallow wicker baskets and hurling it against the walls of a long concrete court...
...wrist to protect the hand from the sting of the fast-moving little pelota (hard as a golf ball and a little smaller than a baseball). Cubans imported the sport in 1900, called it jai alai for no other reason than that it was played at an arena in Havana called Fronton Jai Alai (Merry Festival Court...
Like all capable dictators, Cuba's strong man, Colonel Fulgencio Batista, shows much concern over the common people. Although he holds no elective office, benevolent Tyrant Batista often leaves the studied luxuries of Havana and, like Mexico's Lázaro Cárdenas, gets firsthand impressions in the decidedly less comfortable interior. Cuba's economic pains, including unemployment, have been only partly cured by the U. S. Good Neighbor policy which reduced the U. S. tariff on the island's big product, sugar. Last week, Colonel Batista moved to help Cuba's unemployed...
...anything-these companies looked like the major entrants in the forthcoming race for Cuba's oil: Atlantic Refining's subsidiary, with slightly under 740,000 acres in all provinces except Oriente; Cia Petrolera La Estrella de Cuba, subsidiary of Royal Dutch Co., with 44,460 acres in Havana and Matanzas provinces; Union Oil of Cuba, and Sinclair Cuba Oil Co. with increasing acreage spotted throughout the island. If any of these companies strike deep production- long suspected in Cuba's lower Cretaceous (Chalk) region-it may set off a boom as loud as the sugar spree...
...Gorgas (Henry O'Neill) and the commission headed by Major Walter Reed (Lewis Stone) in their long fight against the yellow peril. It makes no bones about pointing out that the eventually accepted solution, i.e., that the disease was spread by the Stegomyia mosquito, was something that a Havana physician, Dr. Carlos Finlay, had been saying in vain for 19 years. And it stamps as matter-of-fact, unassuming heroes the young doctor (Henry Hull) who died and the five volunteers who risked their lives to test the Finlay theory...