Word: sugars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Timing. Castro's President dismissed the U.S. charges as "unfounded," leaving relations as bad as ever, and at a dangerous time for Cuba. As the State Department is anxiously aware, anti-Castro sentiment is growing in Congress, which early in the next session must write a new Sugar Act allocating the 4,500,000 tons of foreign sugar that the U.S. imports at the premium price of 6? a lb. (double the world price). Cuba currently has the lion's share, 3,200,000 tons...
...slowed their work to the notorious prewar "Australian crawl," the overall impact of ambitious immigrants has been to force the Old Australians to hump harder. Eager, gifted immigrant children are grabbing top honors in Melbourne and Adelaide high schools. In Queensland, Italians have become a major factor in the sugar-cane industry. Two Dutch immigrants are marketing a new plastic film to seal the bottom of sheep-station ponds and thereby save the precious water in the outback from leaking away. Australia's world-beating teenage swimmers, John and Ilsa Konrads, were born in Latvia...
...claimed an unidentified light plane this afternoon dropped an incendiary bomb on a sugar mill in western Cuba and burned a house down...
...Replied to persistent reports that the U.S. Congress, angry over Castro's treatment of U.S. capital, will cut Cuba's sugar quota while raising Mexico's. Said he: "If measures are taken against us, we will take the countermeasures required. What measures? Many...
...Wurzburg Wine Producers Association said: "I would not even be surprised if my grandchildren or their children called this wine the wine of the millennium." Said a less historically minded producer: "This will be real saufwein (boozing wine)." The Germans rate wine quality by the degree of sugar content in the grapes before fermentation. By this standard, the predicted sugar content of the 1959 harvest will make German wines, like those of France, the best produced so far in this century...