| Castro Rebuffed: Ike Acts To Cut Cuba Sugar Quota | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1673 |
| Catalog #: | 363454 | |
| Clip Number: | 363454-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 033-055-01 | |
| Timecode: | 00:38:54 - 00:39:42 | |
| Location: | Washington, DC and Cuba | |
| Year Shot: | 1960 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | ECONOMICS: Trade, Imports FARMING: Sugar INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: Misc. LOCATIONS/CARIBBEAN: Cuba LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, Washington D.C. PERSONALITIES: Eisenhower, Dwight (Ike) WAR & CONFLICT/COLD WAR: Misc. | |
| Description: | Castro Rebuffed. In response to the calculated hostility of Fidel Castro's regime, President Dwight D. Eisenhower cuts Cuba's assigned share of the U.S. sugar market by 95%. Good news to other world sugar producers, but a costly blow to Cuba which receives a premium over the world market price. Castro is expected to react to the $92 million loss with new seizures of American property. MS - Ike speaks (no nat sound) at White House press conference. Reporters take notes. MS - Cuba men hack away at plants with machetes. Harvest. Farmers transport the stuff via carts drawn by cattle, also by tractor. CUS - Field hands really cutting away. MLS - Oxen pulling sugar cane that's laying on a wagon. MS - Two men sitting on a tractor pulling sugr cane wagons. | |
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