Word: jamaica
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...verdant Jamaica is a richly productive Crown Colony in the British West Indies, but the bulk of its black inhabitants lives in poverty. The war has strangled its exports of rum and bananas, and the shipping shortage has brought the island's home economy to a new low. As 1943 began, transportation was almost at a standstill; some towns had been dark nine months because there was no oil for lamps; meat, bread, salt, rice, fish and matches were either rationed or unavailable. Economic ills weakened political or der. During a funeral procession the coffin of an unpopular public...
Something had to be done, and London hopefully sent constitutional reforms for Jamaica's consideration (TIME, Feb. 22). To demonstrate political unity, Jamaica's Governor Sir Arthur Richards publicly shook hands with Norman Washington Manley, democratic, popular Irish-Negro leader of the People's National Party, one time Rhodes Scholar and personal friend of Sir Stafford Cripps. W. A. Domingo, a Negro labor leader, was released from the detention camp where he had been held without hearing for 18 months. Also out of jail was the rambunctious labor demagogue Alexander Bustamante. Governor Richards announced an expansion...
Contracts call for the importation of 6,000 Bahamians; soon some 10,000 more workers will come from Jamaica...
...Trial at Jamaica. Last week 25,000 turned out to watch the Count run in the Wood Memorial, Long Island's traditional Derby preview. Few days before, in a tune-up race (his 1943 debut) on a sloppy track, he had proved that he could run in any kind of going. This time, against the cream of the three-year-old crop and despite a gashed hind leg, he really showed his class. From the time he entered the backstretch, where he overtook Blue Swords, his chief rival, he made the race a runaway. His time (1:43 flat...
...Planemaker William E. Boeing's Slide Rule, who beat both Blue Swords and Gold Shower in the Experimental Handi cap at Jamaica fortnight...