Word: northcross
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...Astor and Percy A. Rockefeller, shut up mill executives, wives and children in their quarters, cut off electricity and water. Fifteen sugar mills in Oriente province, mostly U. S.-owned, had been seized by rampaging Cuban proletarians. In Santiago de Cuba soldiers, miners and Communist agitators heckled Manager Fred Northcross of Bethlehem Steel's Daiquiri Mines until he shouted: "We are closing down-permanently!" In Havana harassed U. S. Ambassador Sumner Welles felt obliged to deny rumors that he was hatching a conspiracy to oust President Grau y San Martin in favor of sly, bearded General Mario G. Menocal...
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