Word: havana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Havana's broad Malecon, sweating drivers pushed automobiles toward service stations and into queues that were sometimes ten blocks long. Desperate motorists waited all night to get their ration of three gallons when gasoline pumps opened in the morning. More than half of Havana's automobiles were garaged for lack of gas. Milk deliveries were cut, taxis almost vanished, and black-market fuel sold as high as $1.20 a gallon...
...week's end, Menéndez' body lay in state in the great marble Capitolio in Havana, where thousands passed his bier. All over Cuba sugar workers staged brief protest strikes. Cuba's Communists, who had been wasting away for months, now had a martyr, and they would make the most...
...McNaughton. But the P.M. thought that McNaughton had his hands full as Canada's atomic-energy specialist. Then the P.M.'s advisers proposed Dana Wil-gress, former ambassador to Russia. Just the man, the P.M. thought-until he learned that Wilgress, now at the I.T.O. meeting in Havana, was exhausted and would not accept the job. Other candidates? The P.M.'s advisers shrugged; Canada, with a young striped-pants corps, simply did not have anyone else with proper experience...
Indian Delegate C. H. Bhabha wanted a further amendment in the draft charter of the I.T.O.-International Trade Organization-which the Havana conference hopes to complete. That charter already permits (while deploring in principle) the use of preferential tariffs. It even allows a nation to lay down flat quotas on the amount of goods that may enter that country, provided I.T.O. approves. India's Bhabha said that this was not good enough. India wanted the power to set its own quotas, with or without I.T.O. permission...
Clayton and others at Havana were fighting the good fight for a freer trade world to which virtually all delegates subscribed-in principle. In practice, this fight was a lot easier for the U.S. delegation than for those countries whose industries, state and private, saw no security or progress unless they could somehow be protected from competition...