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Order was restored only when President Carlos Prio Socarrás promised that local markets would be safe for handwork. Hereafter, he decreed, machine-made cigars would be for export only. The big companies, which had already installed 29 machines (displacing 768 workers) and ordered 12 more, refused to accept Prio's decision as final. "Now that we have invested our money," wailed one big producer, "we would be forced to close if this is definitive. Our export market is not large enough to take our full machine output. We need 20% of the home market besides." The battle...
Cubans were talking and acting like good neighbors last week. President Carlos Prio Socarrás declared that Cubans considered any threat to the security of the U.S. a threat to their own security. A Cuban delegation of six industrialists and two labor leaders laid before the U.S. National Production Authority a plan, worked out by the Cuban Association of Manufacturers and endorsed by the government and the major unions, to gear the island's production to U.S. defense needs. Cuba would help mainly by expanding production of sugar, alcohol, textiles and minerals, especially nickel and manganese...
...filled the city's bathtubs. In downtown Havana, citizens came to gaze admiringly at an election propaganda waterfall spurting brightly over an aluminum sheet. At week's end unofficial tallies showed 171,828 votes for Castellanos to 119,555 for his opponent, merry Antonio Prío Socarrás, the Auténtico (government) party's candidate, brother of Cuba's President Carlos Prío and the odds-on favorite of smart political dopesters...
When Cuba's President Carlos Prío Socarrás decided to scrap Havana's rattletrap trolleys in favor of buses, he thought he knew just the man for the job: tall, tough Millionaire William D. Pawley, 53. Boss of Miami's bus system, Pawley had organized Cuba's first commercial airline and built most of its airfields. Many Cubans regard him as a combination financial wizard and philanthropist...
...parade of workers and government employees, who had been given the afternoon off, wound its way through downtown Havana last week, now & then raising a polite shout: "Empréstito, si! [The loan, yes!]." They were signifying their well-organized approval of President Prío Socarrás' proposal to borrow up to $200 million from U.S. banks for public works and industrial development...