Word: havana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...side of Havana's crowded harbor, the, massive crane that unloads the Seatrain stood stark and still. The Seatrain itself, a seagoing ferry that brings 105 loaded U.S. freight cars to Cuba weekly and returns them packed with Cuban freight, languished at its home berth in New Orleans. Cuba's belligerent dock workers, backed by the compliant Grau San Martin Government, had decided that the Seatrain was cutting them out of jobs...
...frustration as the great crane plucked loaded cars from its hold and set them on the railroad tracks bound for Cuba's warehouses. Their countermove was a demand on Seatrain Lines, Inc. to hire one-third more stevedores and let them load and unload each car at Havana ("for customs inspection"). Result: by last week the Seatrain had stopped running...
...supply only during the rainy season. But even when the clouds open, distribution pumps often break down. Hilltop houses generally have water only at night, if at all. On Quito streets Indian women carrying buckets in search of water are as familiar a sight as lottery-ticket vendors in Havana. Complained an indignant letter-writer in Quito's El Comercio: "In the morning the cook must take a streetcar to the hospital to see if she can get some water. She usually returns late and without any, so we have lunch at 4 p.m. without a drop to wash...
...white-capped waters off Havana's Morro Castle, 28 Star Class yachts last week competed in the first big international regatta since 1939 - but the dip ping of sails and careening of tiny hulls drew no audience ashore. Sports-loving Cubans were mostly off at baseball games...
...wanted to start an airline. Keys suggested a Lima-to-Montreal route, got a charter from the Peruvian Government, and raised $4,000,000 from Americans, Canadians, and Peruvians. P.I.A.'s first route, which it hopes to be operating before March: Lima to Montreal via Panama City, Havana, and New York. This may prove potent competition for Panagra. And if P.I.A. ever makes the obvious extension to Buenos Aires, it will have a New York-to-Buenos Aires route 700 miles shorter than Pan-American Airways...