Word: subs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington. The other trouble is of even more recent origin. It was occasioned by the passage of the Tarafa railroad bill by the Cuban House of Representatives. This bill provides for a holding company to operate the consolidated railroads of Cuba, and for the closing of 47 " private " or sub-ports and the operation of only 25 public seaports. There are many sugar companies which own their own railroads, and export sugar from their own ports. About one-third of the Cuban sugar crop is handled in this way and about 85% of Cuban sugar companies are owned by Americans...
...Elie Metchnikoff (1845-1916), Russian, sub-director of Pasteur Institute, Paris, inventor of " phagocytosis "theory of white blood corpuscles, discoverer of therapeutic value of lactic ferments (Bacillus bulgaricus...
...joint sub-committee composed of four operators and four miners most of the bargaining was done. Samuel D. Warriner led the operators; John L. Lewis the miners. Rinaldo Cappelini, radical President-elect of the United Mine Workers, District 1, was not a member of this body. The chief discussion was over the " checkoff" system whereby the coal companies collect dues for the unions out of miners' pay. The operators did not openly deny the demand of the miners for the checkoff, but asked a great many questions indicating their opposition to the idea...
...reason for these loans is that France has particular interests to safeguard in Balkanized Europe. The loan to Yugo-Slavia not only stimulates the Little Entente, but helps French trade coming from the Near and Middle East. The loan to Poland contained a definite sub rosa military understanding that Poland was to assist France in case of attack by either Russia or Germany; or, in other words, she was to act the part of Belgium in North-Eastern Europe...
...latest concession granted sub rosa by the Turkish Government...