Word: cubanize
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...railroad executives during the railroad strike; he acted as adviser to the coal operators during the coal strike; he was conferring with cement manufacturers who were under indictment for an alleged violation of the anti-trust law; he was attempting, as the representative of the American producers of Cuban sugar, to secure what these organizations believed to be reasonable tariff; and finally, he was giving counsel to the heads of the oil industry, which was under investigation by a Senatorial committee...
...Cuban Government then negotiated through the U.S. States Department for supplies of arms for use against the revolutionists of Santa Clara, and these negotiations terminated with the approval of the U.S. Government to the Cuban appeal...
...Cuban Capablanca wrested the world's chess championship from Dr. Emanuel Lasker, German. But in the international chess masters' tournament which began in Manhattan on March 16 and was completed last week, Dr. Lasker triumphed?in the grand manner...
...Cuban crop has been the real source of the world's sugar ever since the practical destruction of the beet sugar industry of Europe during the War. Last year the drought in Cuba reduced the output and ruined many growers, and there is no large excess of sugar overhanging the markets...
...Utah and other centres have strongly supported this tariff. And the sugar refineries and the American companies producing cane sugar in Louisiana, Cuba and elsewhere have strongly opposed it. Without the tariff, the American beet sugar industry is doomed, since it cannot compete with the lower costs of producing Cuban sugars. With the tariff, we have a situation analogous to taxing American sugar consumers in order to subsidize the domestic beet sugar industry...