Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rethy, his begoggled son, Prince Baudouin, and 40 pieces of baggage. Cuba's Major General Genovevo Perez Damera and a battery of cameramen gave the party a royal welcome (see cut). The Hotel Nacional apologetically provided the best in the house-a mere presidential suite, but free. Cuban Sugaristocrat José Goméz Meña threw a great big garden party. After two weeks of "recreation and study" (the Princess raised some eyebrows by recreating in slacks), the-royal family planned to steam off to the U.S., then back to Europe...
Dependent on the U.S. for its motor fuel supply, Cuba was going to be on short rations at least until spring eased the U.S. shortage and released tankers for the Cuban run. As a stopgap move, the government last week ordered sugar-mill owners to put aside 40 million gallons of blackstrap molasses for the making of alcohol. Combined with gasoline, the alcohol would soon go into motorists' tanks as carburante national, a low-grade, high-knock fuel...
...train left Yara, Captain Joaquin Casillas of the Guardia Rural (part of the Cuban Army charged with keeping law and order in rural areas) boarded with a squad and looked up Menéndez. The young (36) Communist leader was told that he could not hold his meeting and would be arrested if he tried. Menéndez replied that, as a member of the Cuban House of Representatives, he had congressional immunity. By the time the train reached Manzanillo the two men were in heated argument. Suddenly, as they alighted, Captain Casillas whipped out his automatic and fired three...
Prince & Pauper. The feast-&-famine industries were really feasting in these days of shortages. In the packing industry, Wilson & Co. stock sold at 16¾, only 2½ times 1947's per-share earnings. Sugar stocks, depressed by the fear of a big Cuban crop, were about as low. Others...
...Week's 1947 Price- Closing Earning Earnings Stock Price per Share Ratio Cudaby $12⅛ $ 4.32 2.7 Armour 13⅜ 4.85 2.8 Swift 36 5.70 6.3 J. P. Stevens 30½ 8.24 3.5 Botany Mills 22 16.50 1.3 Cuban-American Sugar 13¾ 6.13 2.3 Cuban-Atlantic Sugar...