Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cuba went peacefully on in the sunbright streets and sleepy countryside, at night in the city of Havana the secret conferences of dark-eyed men talking softly and rapidly became longer and subtler and more intense. The Republican Actionist Party of impeached President Gómez, who spent the winter attending exhibition baseball games with ostentatious humility, suddenly spurted with a violent manifesto characterizing Acting-President Laredo Bru as "a decorative figure and a phantom, imprisoned in the palace as a legal fiction," and demanding that the Army stay clear of the elections for the Constituent Assembly. Grizzled, conservative...
...eligible to operate a motor vehicle at night in New York State, where full driving privileges begin at 18. One is Mitzi Green, a stripling advertised as 16 who used to be a child star in the films, progressed to a juvenile radio program which she surprisingly forsook this winter to entertain at a Manhattan night club called Versailles, a house where innocence is as rare as courtesy. There Miss Green did impersonations, the most painful of which-a re-enactment of Luise Rainer's big sob scene in The Great Ziegfeld-she repeats in Babes In Arms...
...landing systems, for which there is vital need. Some 500 men will soon start work on the site, 20 minutes from Manhattan across George Washington Bridge, constructing a factory, laboratory and foundry big enough for 2,500 workers. One device they will make when the plant is completed next winter and for which many airlines are eagerly waiting is Pan American Airway's famed Direction Finder system, the manufacturing rights to which cagey Vincent Bendix acquired last month. A complex mechanism by far the best of its kind in the world, it works from the ground, locates a plane...
From his ten-room apartment atop Philadelphia's Temple University Hospital last winter Henry Latham Doherty dispatched an offer to settle a stockholders' suit. To his Cities Service Co. he would donate $1,250,000, pay the opposing attorneys' fee, but under no conditions admit "any remissness" (TIME, Feb. 15). Mr. Doherty thereby concocted a formula which other rich men, suspected of remissness by their past or present stockholders, could readily adapt to their own needs. Last week Albert Henry Wiggin, boomtime head of Chase National Bank, offered $2,000,000 to settle stockholders' actions brought...
...ports of the U. S. combined. The gross tonnage of ships employed on the Great Lakes in 1929 was greater than that of the merchant fleet of Holland and nearly equaled the French merchant marine. The backbone of this trade is ore. Last week, because Steel's big winter had depleted supplies of ore at Lake Erie docks to 2,851,951 tons, little more than half the amount on hand last year and the lowest in ten years, shipping companies rejoiced at getting their big boats through to Duluth and Superior two weeks ahead of the 1936 opening...