Word: havana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...impetuous young lieutenant taking a first excited peek at a shooting war, returned after 51 years of a roving commission. In 1895 he had ridden (as an observer) with a Spanish column pursuing Cuban rebels through the bullet-buzzing jungle; now he rode in a motorcade through Havana streets choked with Churchill-cheering crowds. He lunched with the President, gave the V-sign from the wedding-cake palace balcony, uncorked a brave "Viva la perla de las Antillas!" The world's most celebrated cigar-smoker relaxed in the land of plenty. Given 100 Havanas by the Minister of Agriculture...
Wines & Silver. The war cut the Latin republics from their normal source of manufactured goods, taught them to trade among themselves. In shop windows along Havana's Calle San Rafael appeared Mexican silver, Argentine pocketbooks, Chilean wines. Today, Argentina's chief supplier is no longer Britain but Brazil. Three Chilean companies now export more bananas from Ecuador to Chile than United Fruit ships...
Perhaps you remember the postwar proposal (TIME BUSINESS, Sept. 17) of an energetic, young (37) Jacksonville, Fla. barge-line operator named Harold Gray Williams to ferry motorists and their cars across the 90 nautical miles from Key West to Havana, Cuba. Travelers had dreamed of it, but Williams had gone so far as to set up a company and order his first ferry-a super deluxe ship to carry 300 autos and 900 passengers per trip across the Straits of Florida in six hours at a cost of about...
...showdown came last week at a conference in Havana. TWA and Pennroad bought out Yerex's contract as TACA president for about $100,000, half what he would have received in the eight years the contract still had to run. In return, Yerex agreed not to operate airlines in TACA's Latin American bailiwick for two years. He kept some $3,500,000 in TACA stock and a seat on the board of directors...
Divorced. By Ernest Hemingway, 47, masculine, monosyllabic author: his third wife, Martha Gellhorn, 37, author of social novels and Hemingwayesque short stories; after five years of marriage, no children; in Havana. Grounds: desertion...