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Word: caribbean (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...merely reacting, has lately done so intelligently. A Caribbean arms embargo coupled with an obvious show of patience toward Cuba has taken any hemisphere-wide punch out of Castro's anti-Yankee tirades. Current U.S. investment policies are increasingly based on partnership (see below). The Inter-American Bank, mostly U.S. financed, will be in business just as soon as the remaining 18 of the 20 Latin American countries cough up their donations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Headlines at Last | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...lumber, is putting the finishing touches on the Amazon's first skyscraper in downtown Belém. Ukraine-born U.S. Citizen Maurice Kleinberg started Belém's first deep-sea fishing fleet in 1956, now ships giant shrimp and red snapper to the U.S. and the Caribbean as fast as he can freeze them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE RIUER SEN: Men and Medicine Move-ln on the Amazon | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

...weapons he wants, Castro gives top priority to the Hawker Hunter, a British-built jet. Castro wants to trade in 17 propeller-driven Sea Furies on 17 Hawker Hunters from the British. The U.S. is opposed to any Caribbean arms race, but the British say they are still "actively considering" the Castro offer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Enemies Underground | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...state law to slow down the inflow of penniless migrants by requiring a one-year residence -normal in most states-before a newcomer becomes eligible for relief payments, and 2) a civic campaign to discourage migration to the city from "all parts of the country and the Caribbean." Puerto Rican children, he said, flashing a sheaf of papers, account for 20% of the juvenile delinquency in the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Knights v. Crowns | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

...Humes. Fate rings its intricate coils around some white officers and Negro enlisted men tunneling a Caribbean ammunition dump. In their common doom, Novelist Humes finds some timeless observations about the human condition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER: Time Listings, Oct. 5, 1959 | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

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