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...Uncle Sam, Cuban sugar men have therefore smacked into a tough bargainer. The U.S. offer to Cuba last month: a 40% cut in production, last year's price, plus two measly sops in the form of 1-1½? a Ib. for an additional 400,000-ton stock pile and vague offers to help Cuba diversify its one-crop economy (which is more than high-cost domestic producers have been persuaded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUGAR: Hard Bargain | 2/8/1943 | See Source »

...middle of the bare floor was a pile of trunks and boxes, neatly scaled and with tags and stickers announcing their destination. Vag pulled off his gloves, methodically, with his teeth, and slid his hands into his pockets. He looked around him slowly at the rectangular islands of clean paint on the walls, ghosts of Bob's school banners and pictures, that had become so familiar. He stared hard at the emptiness. A piece of jagged white wood hanging slantwise on the wall by a single nail caught his eye. Vag cocked his head and read...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 2/8/1943 | See Source »

...tapped his cigarette ash into the hearth and watched it drift down onto a pile of half-charred letters, mostly blue and pink ones. All that remained of a burned Crimson said, "Unassigned ERC Goes in February" "That one was no rumor," Vag muttered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 2/8/1943 | See Source »

...line-ups will be those which will face the Blue the following week. After Felt left, Decker Orr was moved up definitely to the number one post, for which he has been a serious contender ever since he won the invitation Tournament in New York during the vacation. Following pile-driving Orr will be Tom Sears, who placed second in the vacation play, losing to Orr after maintaining a perfect record in the early rounds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SQUASH MEN TIGHTEN STRINGS FOR COMING MATCH WITH ELI | 1/27/1943 | See Source »

...Bethlehem innkeeper & wife. These roles were not designed to exploit the Lunts' facility with bang and banter. Further, they were not favored by WOR-Mutual's jerky dramatization of the life and death of Russia's hero Nikolai Gastello, who dived into a German gasoline stock pile. The Lunts could not make Gastello's parents even as convincing as the script made his act-which was not too convincing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Lunts v. The Air | 1/4/1943 | See Source »

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