Word: sugar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Annapolis degree established him as an engineer in Cuba; in that profession, together with sugar-planting, he has since made a comfortable livelihood. His naval training also qualified him to lead a filibustering expedition ashore at Gibara in eastern Cuba in 1931 in a vain effort to overthrow the Machado tyranny. Amnestied, he went into exile until Machado was finally toppled two years later...
Sack Suits. Today, as before, the center of the sugar and pineapple kingdom lies between Bishop and Fort Streets in Honolulu. But the men who stride briskly in & out of the air-conditioned buildings are not proprietors in the 19th century sense; they are corporate managers...
...they incline toward the Brooks Brothers sack suit-and wouldn't be caught dead in an open-necked, flowered aloha shirt during business hours. Shares of all but one of the Big Five are traded on the Honolulu Stock Exchange. Between stockholders' meetings, the corporate executives manage sugar and pineapple plantations, and manage them with great skill. They compete with each other for insurance business. They still have tight control of sugar and ultimate say-so over the Matson steamship line, but dominate very little else. They lean over backward to live up to the letter of their...
...Louis, No. 7, undefeated (6-0) in the Missouri Valley Conference, and owner of a 16-4 record overall. Using its controlled fast break, St. Louis upset Kentucky, the nation's top offensive team, 61-60, in the Sugar Bowl tournament, then beat Oklahoma A. & M., the nation's top defensive team 48-40. Attendance is up 2% over St. Louis' alltime high...
...Premier, 68-year-old Aly Maher Pasha, worked 18 hours a day restoring order. Simultaneously, he worked to ease the lot of the destitute whose unrest threatens Egypt. He cut kerosene and sugar prices, started investigations into rice and textile profiteering, ordered his ministers to give up their fancy limousines and limit themselves to one Ford apiece...