Word: havana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...daily (90% of consumption), may soon have its first sizable producing oilfield. A group of U.S. oilmen and Cuban promoters have brought in the country's biggest find, with a well pumping 250 bbls. of good-quality oil in the Jatibonico Basin, about 215 miles southeast of Havana...
...example, said Hotchkis, Sears Roebuck & Co. "has invested over $28 million in five countries in Latin America [since opening its first Latin American store in Havana in 1941], With the exception of one small dividend from a Cuban subsidiary, every cent of profits earned between 1941 and 1952 was reinvested in the countries in which they were earned to finance new stores and new products...
Nervously pulling at his pipe, the Duke of Windsor fidgeted on the first tee of a Cuban golf course, was photographed just before he smacked out a drive in the opening round of the four-ball amateur invitation tournament at the Havana Biltmore Yacht and Country Club...
...earth's magnetic field in a long wire loop dragged behind the boat. Using the principles of this instrument, the Institute experimented last fall on the current that runs through the Florida straits by hitching up electrodes on either end of the Western Union cable that runs to Havana and measuring the potential between the ends. Calculation with the potential gave the amount of water that flows through the entire straits--about equal to a hundred million bathtubs per second...
Police have arrested two members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party at the home of Mrs. Pedro Albizu y Campos, in Havana. Ms. Campos, a former Radcliffe graduate student, is the wife of the Harvard educated leader of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party...