Word: landed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Agriculture Minister Humberto Sori Marin: "You have been publicly critical of land reform...
...notion of an Agriculture Minister who had misgivings about land reform naturally infuriated Castro, and Havana heard that the other chided ministers, particularly Agramonte, were also fainthearted about the drastic law. Castro's answer was to fire them all and replace them with more fervent...
Small-Holder Protest. Outside the Cabinet, Castro fought for his law with threats, cajolery and left-wing bombast. "Land reform will not be stopped even if the sky rains spikes," he angrily told the National Newsmen's Association. In the Havana Hilton's glittering banquet room, he pleaded with 1,000 lawyers, once the main supporters of his rebellion but now disturbed and doubtful: "Revolution implies change. An immense majority of the people lack bread." The next night he blustered over TV: "If at some time it is necessary to apply revolutionary justice anew, we will defend...
...opponents stood their ground-which is chiefly the round green hills of tobacco-growing Pinar del Río province. The 20,000 farmers united there in the Group of Owners of Rustic Estates held four big rallies that showed the most outspoken opponents of land reform to be gnarled-handed small holders. Felix Fernÿndez Pérez, the group's president, owner of 149 acres and once exiled as a fervent Castro supporter, told 1,000 cheering men: "Castro has fooled us." Said semiliterate Farmer Macho Villar, who also fought for Castro: "I will continue...
...cargo, but water resistance keeps them slow. Last week Britain's Saunders-Roe, Ltd. (aircraft) demonstrated a hybrid craft that is neither ship nor airplane, but has some of the advantages of both. Called the Hovercraft, it moves a little way above the surface of land or water, supported on a nearly frictionless cushion...