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...world's biggest sugar operator is a little known Havana trader named Julio Lobo. A short, imperious man of 54, Lobo has more to do than anybody else with determining the world price of sugar. He handles about half the entire Cuban crop, at least a fourth of the Puerto Rican and Philippine crops, owns or controls up to 30 Cuban sugar mills, and dominates the market everywhere. "I am the market," he says. "I buy and sell sugar any time, day or night." Last week, as Cuba's 5,000,000-ton sugar harvest rolled toward...
...sugar-mill engineering at Louisiana State University. He learned sugar marketing in the hard times following World War I, when he was called home to put his father's factoring firm of Lobo y Cia back on its feet and soon earned a reputation as a top trader...
...British trade bargainer who had been bested in a deal by Miguel Miranda, Argentina's postwar economic czar, once said of him: "He is a trader, always was a trader, and at the end will try to trade with the Almighty to get himself into heaven." After World War II, when Europe was on its uppers, Miranda won dubious fame for his country by charging hungry European countries skyscraping prices for wheat and meat, and using the profits to finance Juan Perón's first five-year plan. Ousted from power in a feud with Evita...
...Dakota (DC-3) of the South African air force took off for the Mozambique Channel, with Dr. Smith fretting in the cabin. It made a landing on the small French island of Dzaoudzi, more than 1,500 miles away. There Dr. Smith found his fish, rank but undecayed, on Trader Hunt's little ship. He knelt on the deck and wept...
...fish had been caught by a native near Anjouan, another small island. Trader Hunt heard of it and rushed to the rescue. He had no ice to preserve the prize, but he borrowed a syringe from a medical officer and injected it with Formalin...