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...mills and planting 2,000 acres, with $6,000,000 from the Bacardi rum interests. Osceola Farms, backed by three Cuban families, owns 4,400 acres and is negotiating for much more. The Cubans who are moving to the U.S. have a good example to follow. The Okeelanta Sugar Co. was started by two Cuban families in 1952 as a sideline to their island companies. Now their two Florida mills and vast acreage are worth almost as much as their $27 million worth of mills and land that were confiscated...
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