Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...biggest sugar-eating nation, for a year and a half. But two months ago, for technical reasons, short traders on the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange could not get enough sugar to fulfill December contracts of 26,450 tons (TIME, Dec. 31). The AAA quotas for Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Philippines had been filled for the year. Cuba had given to U. S. refiners what amounted to an option on the rest of the Cuban quota. Surplus sugar accumulated from other years was not tenderable in fulfillment of Exchange contracts. So the shorts caught in the squeeze defaulted, were...
...hasten to endorse the idea of "Friends of TIME"-Society for the Combating of Bigots, it might be called (TIME, Jan. 14). I herewith pledge my contribution to offset the Army man's popgun shot fired down Puerto Rico way; it gave me a hearty laugh...
Travels & Talks. The Man of the Year went yachting off Florida; attended the Harvard-Yale crew races at New London; cruised for a month aboard the U. S. S. Houston from Annapolis to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, through the Panama Canal to Hawaii and back to Portland, Ore.; traveled across the continent with the cheers of multitudes in his ears and the news of drought-slaking rains in his wake; relaxed as the country squire at Hyde Park; toured the Tennessee Valley; sunned himself in the pool at Warm Springs. And during 1934, he spoke 23 times over...
Philippine sugar producers filled their 1934 quota early last summer. The Puerto Rican and Hawaiian quotas were completed in November. But Cuba, noted in the trade as a patient holder, still had several hundred thousand tons of its quota left as late as September. The Cubans had begun to foresee that as soon as the quotas of other producers were exhausted, they would be in control of the U. S. raw sugar market until the 1935 quotas came into effect Jan. 1. Accordingly, in early October, they signed a three-month agreement with U. S. refiners. The agreement: 1) Cuban...
During the last two months, the field was thrown open to 8,951 candidates in 630 Federal examination rooms from Balboa Heights, C. Z., to Fort Kent, Me., from Ketchikan, Alaska, to Mayaguez, Puerto Rico...