Word: sugars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...envelopes of labor, already hard pressed by heavy taxes and a decline in real wages. In April a rise in bus fares provoked rioting that killed 22 people. A fortnight ago, when President Ibanez moved to slash government expenses by reducing the subsidies that held down the price of sugar and tea, the government accompanied the order with special instructions to the police on how to quell any rioting that might follow: sound a bugle three times at two-minute intervals, then break up the mobs by any means necessary...
...aside, but cars rolled by unmolested just a few yards away. Only a handful of aides guarded Generalissimo Doctor Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, 65, Benefactor of the Fatherland, Genius of Peace, etc., etc., etc., as he strolled confidently along. In the dictator's island fief, poincianas were blooming, sugar cane was growing, business was booming...
Getting Results. As the 27th year of the Era of Trujillo neared an end, the strongman was still working a seven-day week and still getting results. The gross national product in 1956 was well over $500 million. Exports last year (mainly sugar, coffee, cocoa) reached a record high of $126.5 million. Imports in 1956 were held to $108.3 million, leaving a trade surplus of $18.2 million. The record 1957 budget, nicely balanced at $131.5 million, will buy more schools, hospitals and roads...
...often a scrupulously fair offer; the victims accept rather than face the tax and regulatory troubles that might follow refusal. Trujillo's cement, beer and electric-power monopolies were all acquired in this fashion, and he has nearly completed control of the island's biggest business-sugar. Most recent big U.S. firm to get out: the West Indies Sugar Co., for $36 million...
...night. Today Jimmy lives in transportive Arlington, Va. with his wife Sue and their two children Gary (5) and Connie (3). He gets up at 3:30 every morning, downs a breakfast of three energy pills and a Waring-blended pint of cream, two eggs, vanilla and sugar, drives his 1957 white Oldsmobile convertible to the Washington studio, where he runs through the songs for his show. To Dean, country music is a happy thing, and keeps him practicing the advice he gave when he signed off last week: "Grin once in a while; it's good...