Word: sugar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republic, no chum has been closer, no tool more useful than Secretary of State Without Portfolio Anselmo Paulino Alvarez. Whenever islanders talk of the terroristic carro de la muerte (death car) that disposed of the regime's earlier enemies, or the later massacre of 15,000 immigrant Haitian sugar-cane cutters, Paulino's name comes up. In payment for such chores Trujillo let Paulino wrap his blimplike belly in the uniform of an honorary major general and play the role of Despot No. 2. Inevitably, No. 2 got to thinking of himself as a likely successor. But that...
...staid Germans, who find gum-chewing G.I.s and tourists unspeakably schrecklich, the German Medical Association had a shocking announcement. Despite the bad effect of sugar coating, "Chewing inspires the flow of saliva and thereby improves the teeth-cleaning process. [It] makes teeth more sound, now that people no longer eat hard food or chew their food thoroughly...
...Rafael Lacson was the undisputed boss of Negros Occidental, second most populous province in the Philippines. He sat in the governor's chair and, allied with the big sugar planters, ran a tight police state. The province's 200.000 voters did as Lacson bade and so did the under paid farm workers. If anyone stepped out of line in Negros Occidental, he answered either to the planters' private armies or to Lacson's own bullet-hard, radio-equipped constabulary. In 1949 a few foreign correspondents flew in to inspect this little dictatorship; Governor Lacson turned them...
...jumping higher than Bostomans had seen in a long while. Cause: the mambo a dance named (some claim) from a slang word used by Cuban sugar cane workers meaning "shake it." The Boston crowd (1,140 Paid admissions) was shaking it with glee. So were the bright-sleeved musicians on the band stand and their round-faced, sleepy-eyed leader Perez Prado, self-confessed inventor of the mambo. In his dress suit and stiff shirt Prado never even blinked at the deafening brass screeches that threatened to shatter the red neon tubes framing the ceiling. Only 50-odd couples actually...
Nobody knows the whole truth of the coffee situation; undoubtedly, both Brazil's crop-reporting system and the New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange could stand better regulation. FTC is thinking of asking Congress to police the coffee exchange more closely, possibly by putting it under the Commodity Exchange Authority, which could keep an eye on excess speculation. FTC also hopes to improve crop reporting by increasing U.S. agriculture attache staffs in Brazil, which check up on local forecasts with estimates of their...