Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quebec, eleven years ago, they had $4 in cash and $267 worth of hardware. When the Selfs retired last week and headed for a U.S. vacation (the World Series, Ben's birthplace at Claremore, Okla., the Mardi Gras at New Orleans, then the warm sun of Florida and Cuba), they had $20,000 cash-the price they got for their hardware store-$100,000 in Val D'Or real estate, and an estimated 100,000 shares of 32?-a-share stock in a promising but yet-to-be-developed gold mine...
Padilla was also banking on the sentiment for democracy that was in the postwar air of the hemisphere. In recent months both Cuba and Peru had chosen their Presidents in free, apparently honest elections. Now Brazil showed signs of switching from the corporate state to a more democratic setup. Perhaps Mexico would get the idea-and if it got the idea, maybe Padilla would be its choice...
Time turned backward for aging William Randolph Hearst. Once again, as in the days of his beloved Spanish-American War (when Hearst himself dramatically "invaded" Cuba from a chartered steamboat, captured 26 wet, befuddled Spanish sailors whose ship had been sunk in the Battle of Santiago), a Hearst reporter was dashing about, brushing the Army & Navy aside, taking strategically important objectives singlehanded, and revealing all. The reporter: bulky, handsome Clark ("Chang") Lee, 38. In six days, by his own word, Clark Lee had: ¶ Been the first to find "Tokyo Rose" (see RADIO...
Further auto ferry routes will be opened later, between Cuba and Haiti (fare: $40 a car), and between the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico ($30 a car). Also a Cuba-Jamaica line is under consideration...
When a connecting road is constructed from the Yucatan Peninsula to the Pan American Highway running through Mexico, Williams will operate a ferry between Cuba and Puerto Morelos. U.S. motorists from the eastern seaboard who want to go to Mexico City would save 800 miles of driving by taking the Cuba-Mexico auto ferry...