Word: havana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days and most of one night of conferring, sustained by 20 gallons of black coffee and 200 Havana cigars, the builders learned that things might not be too bad after all. Said President Coogan: the current record rate of housing starts (1,250,000 a year) would be allowed to continue for another 60 to 90 days, then would be cut back; eventually, the housing boom might...
...ambassador's little diplomatic joke was not lost on Washingtonians. Since the current baseball season opened, the Washington Senators have brought up Conrado Marrero and Sandalio Consuegra from their Havana farm team of the Florida International League. The two pitchers have won nine games, helped raise the Senators to fifth place, three notches above their 1949 cellar position...
...handsome former truck driver who looks like Tyrone Power, Castellanos had put on a dashing personal campaign. He and his pretty wife Laudelina buzzed through town in a fishtail Cadillac, reminded everyone how his administration had filled the city's bathtubs. In downtown Havana, citizens came to gaze admiringly at an election propaganda waterfall spurting brightly over an aluminum sheet. At week's end unofficial tallies showed 171,828 votes for Castellanos to 119,555 for his opponent, merry Antonio Prío Socarrás, the Auténtico (government) party's candidate, brother of Cuba...
Though the Havana mayoralty was the election's juiciest plum, and therefore a sharp setback for the Prío brothers' machine, their Auténtico party cleaned up in the provinces. They won a majority of 66 congressional seats, elected more than 100 of the island's 126 new mayors...
Mayor Castellanos made it clear to everybody that bath water and not ideology had carried him into office. "My only obligation is to the people of Cuba, and especially to habaneros" he proclaimed. "I will now complete my promise to give Havana all the water it needs...