Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...right . . . wrong . . . indefensible!" Republicans calmly retorted that, if leaks there had been about the new tariff bill, they were "unintentional." Certain tariff facts loomed large in ad vance of the bill's presentation: Sugar. The prospect of a higher sugar duty brought to Washington agitated representatives of the Cuban producers. The proposal to limit the free entry of Philippine sugar to 500,000 tons per year accounted for the presence in Washington of Speaker Manuel Roxas of the Philippine House, President Pro Tempore Sergio Os-mena of the Philippine Senate, and Philippine Secretary of Agriculture Rafael Alunan. They...
...Cuban restriction plan, like England's rubber restriction experiment, achieved quite opposite results. The rest of the sugar producing world saw a golden opportunity to make money. And while Cuban production fell from 5,125,970 tons in 1925 to 4,011,717 tons in 1928, the world crop, swelled by many a new cane and beet plantation, rose from 23,687,000 to 25,326,000. Cuba then supplied only 16% of the whole. World markets were seriously unsettled...
...sources (including income from the ¼-owned National Sugar Refining Co.) totaled $9,614,432, as against $6,618,740 in 1927. Its holdings are wide and diverse. Not only does it own sugar refining plants but also a cooperage company, a coal company, and 300,000 acres of Cuban sugar land, equipped with factories and a railroad. This property produces 12% of all the company's raw sugar requirements...
...nine-year career has been both breathless and bewildering. In 1921. it was a Morgan-weaned youngster with the Cuban and Porto Rican telephone systems in its pocket. In 1924, it branched suddenly and surprisingly into Spain, began modernizing a hopelessly antiquated telephone system. Four years later it had added a vast manufacturing unit (International Standard Electric Corp.); two cable companies (All-American Cables, Inc., Commercial Cable Co.); a telegraph company (Postal Telegraph and Cable Corp.); a radio company (Mackay Radio and Telegraph Co.). It had invaded five states (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay) of Latin America. Last week, unnoticed...
...botanical garden itself are represented all the tropical plants of economic importance. We test them out, determine which are best adopted to the Cuban climate, and try to find out if any could be transplanted successfully to other regions. In addition, we make constant exchanges with other similar establishments, notably that of the United Fruit Company in Honduras...