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...company totted up record sales of $26 million last year, which is a long Philippine sea mile from its beginning in 1909, a decade after Commodore Dewey routed the Spanish colonialists in Manila Bay. Founded by a group of U.S. veterans of the Spanish-American War, Lusteveco got its modest start by bunkering coal-hungry...
Died. Brigadier General William Jefferson Glasgow, 101, West Point's oldest living graduate (class of '91), a Cavalry officer who chased Western outlaws in 1893, landed with the Cuban occupation force during the Spanish-American War in 1898, and rode after Pancho Villa in Mexico in 1916; apparently of a heart attack; in El Paso, Texas...
Throughout the negotiations, the venture had been discussed as a joint Spanish-American undertaking, with 45% going to the U.S. partner. But last March, when Madrid decided to strengthen its bid for a link with the Common Market, it seemed a good idea for Spain to show itself as Europe-oriented by offering Common Market companies a piece of the Sahara bonanza. That piece, of course, was to come out of the American share. I.M.C. was first to guess what was going on. Boldly, it lowered its demand for 45% participation...
...such encomiums greeted the Negro regiments of the Civil War-though many units fought gallantly on both sides. Negro troops also served with valor in the Indian wars and the Spanish-American War. (One of their white officers, John Pershing of the 10th Negro Cavalry, became "Black Jack" to a later generation because of his service with Negro troops.) In World Wars I and II, some of the luster was lost with reports of the sometimes cowardly performance of the Negro 92nd and 93rd Divisions, and with the rioting by off-duty Negro soldiers that accompanied a rise in racial...
...stability in Brazil. Brazilians have never either hated or particularly loved the country's 200,000-man military, but have simply accepted it on its own terms as the arbiter of national politics and the guardian of the constitution. Unlike the bloody revolutions of most of the Spanish-American nations, Brazil's gentle wrench from Portugal in 1822 did not create a pantheon of army heroes or a military history that put its people in debt to soldiers. Today, Brazil's military organization is run by a bright, intellectual class of officers who are strongly influenced...