Word: rum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jose Marti Airport: You will be allowed to circulate freely and make purchases at the airport shops. Havana cigars (250 up) and Cuban rum ($1 per fifth) are the best buys. Neither can legally be imported into the U.S., but passengers on Eastern Flight 73 freely carried both through customs when they returned to Miami. There will be little opportunity for sightseeing, except during the trip to the airport on buses provided by the Swiss embassy...
...Cleveland admitted paternity but won anyway, aided by the opposition's slur that Democrats were the party of "Rum, Romanism and Rebellion." He was again the winner in 1892 against Benjamin Harrison...
...promised that the sugar-cane crop "will be 10 million tons rain or no rain" by 1970. Echoing his call are red and yellow pop-art billboards along the roads proclaiming "ten million in '70," while Santa Clara bars push the "ten million cocktail"-a concoction of rum, triple sec and cane sugar. But publicity and propaganda do not grow sugar cane, and most experts doubt that Castro can deliver on his promise. After a prolonged drought, this year's crop is at least 3.5 million tons below his target...
When Booker McConnell & Co., a 150-year-old British-owned sugar and rum company, acquired controlling interest in Master Spy James Bond four years ago, the deal was in deference to Ian Fleming. Bond's creator and Booker's then Chairman Sir Jock Campbell had been Eton classmates, continued to be golfing partners. They also were mutual enthusiasts about the West Indies, where Bond frequently cavorted and where Booker owns eight sugar plantations, as well as investments in ships and stores. When Fleming, during a golf game, complained that no one would buy his Bond-holding Glidrose Productions...
...amusing and exciting diversification," observes Powell, who adds that Booker intends to get no more deeply involved in publishing. Although its authors are providing Booker with its best return on investment, the company also is the biggest importer of rum into Britain, where rum is the second most popular drink after gin. Overall company sales are now $80 million, and profits last year...