Word: jamaicas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Government plans to increase crop yields are based on hopes to change the type of plant harvested. At the moment, Cuba averages 40 tons of cane per acre, while Jamaica, with essentially the same climatic conditions, yields 60 tons an acre. In Hawaii, the figure is 200 tons. The Cuban economic planners are now slowly replacing old cane plants with new ones which yield much more sugar. But this is a slow process because cane lasts for 10 or 15 years and only 10 per cent of the entire crop is replanted each year...
...South Boston-Charlestown candidates who see Boston ideally as a collection of isolated neighborhoods governed by bulky inbred, slow-moving city bureaucracy. Similar in outlook, with minor idiosyncratic variations, are School Committee member John "Make Boston first, but first make Boston safe" McDonough, State Senator Stephen C. Davenport (D-Jamaica Plain...
...OBSER Jamaica...
...Jamaica...
...week's end, the invaders were not even under way. Members of the "peacekeeping force" were still squabbling among themselves; the British frigate they were supposed to board swung at anchor off Antigua. But sooner or later the combined expedition from Jamaica, Guyana, Trinidad-Tobago and Barbados expects to sail to Anguilla and restore the authority of St. Kitts' Premier, Robert Bradshaw, whose highhanded rule helped trigger the revolt. If it does, warned Anguilla's new President, Ronald Webster, it will be a "direct challenge...