Index ABC (Cuban revolutionary group), 136 Absentee ownership, 1,74, 7S Adams, Charles Francis, 110,169 (n. 11) Aetna Mills, 93 Agregados,9, IS 8, 165, 179 (n. 102) Aguirre Sugar Company, 69, 108-II, I I 3, 140, 181,221,115,116 Albizu Campos, Pedro, 138 Allen, Benjamin, 90, 91, 91, 93 Allen, Charles H., 4S, 46 Alma Sugar Company, 61 Alto Cedro Company, 164 (n. 37) American Beet Sugar Company, 58,61 American Beet Sugar Refining Company, 59 American Colonial Bank of Porto Rico, I I 516 , 170 (n. 140) American Sugar Refinery Company, 38. See also American Sugar Refining Company American Sugar Refinery of California, 33, H-3l American Sugar Refining Company, 37-47, j4, 60, 61, 76,86-87,91-91,93, I I1,217 American Trust Company, 93 Animal charcoal: use in sugar refining, 27 Antilla Sugar Company, 92 Antitrust legislation, 38, 39,46,76, I I I Arbuckle Brothers, 41-44, I I I Arias,Jorge Bird, II 3 Arizona Cotton Growers Association, 179 Armour Corporation, 2I8 Armstrong. Charles D., 266 (n. 69) Armstrong, Charles P., I I3 Armstrong, Lorenzo D., 79, I I 3 Arson, 156 (n. 18) Asian indentured labor, 9 Asociaci6n de Trabajadores de Puerto Rico, 138 ASRC. See American Sugar Refining Company Associated American Interests of Cuba, 60 Astor,John Jacob, 263 (n. 18) AT&T, 46 Atkins, Edwin F., 31, ,6, 4l, j7, l8, 60, 101,266 (n. 69); and Punta Alegre Sugar Company, 89-94, 217, 164 (n. 37); and E. Atkins & Company, 90-91, 92, 94; on Cuban independence, 188 Atkins, Elisha, 89, 90 Atkins, Robert w., 91, 93, 166 (n. 69) Atkins and Freeman, 89 Adantic, Gulf and West Indies Steamship Lines, 93 Atlantic Sugar Refineries Company, 1 I 3 B. H. Howell Son and Company, 41,79,80, I04-S, 106, 110, I I 3,228,260 (n. 29),264 (n·37) Babst, Earl D., 9S, 231 Bacon, Louis, 169 (n. 112) Banco de Comercio, 97 Banco Espanol de la Isla de Cuba, 97, 98 Banco Internacional, 96-97 Banco Mercantil Americano de Cuba, 97-98 Banco Nacional, 96, 98, 99 Bancroft, Charles Grey, 169 (n. 111) Bankers Trust, 9l-96, 104, 114, I IS, 117,165 (n.49) Banking industry: U.S., 82-106 passim, 114I l; Cuban, 96-99, 233 Bank of Nova Scotia, 97 Barahona Company, 103, 104, lOS 310 INDEX Barbados, 10, 16 Bartram Brothers, 102,260 (n. 29) Bass, Alexander, 194 Bass, William L., 102, 176, 194 Batista, Fulgencio, 236 Baud, Michiel, 163 Bay City Sugar Company, 61 Bay State Sugar Refining Company, 90-91, 93 Beckford, George, I I- I2 Beet sugar, 90,191,192,201,234; versus cane sugar output, 27-28,102,184,186, 187; tariffs, 28,49-62 passim, 73, 286 (n. 26); and Sugar Trust, 44; export bounties , So; and World War I, 97,231,232 Benjamin,]. R., 12 Bergad, Laird, 137, 199 Bernabe, Rafael, 96, 217 Berwind, John E., 270 (n. 140) Best, Uoyd, II, IZ,62-63 Betances, Ramon Emeterio, 4 Bird, Esteban, 14I, I 82 Boston, Mass.: refineries in, 29 Boston Sugar Refining Company, 93 Boston Wharf Company, 93 Bounties, SO, 54-55,57 Boyer,Jean Pierre, 110 Braceros, I jl, 166, 172, 176-77 Brazil, 193, 198,232 Brewster, H. R., 2S 3 (n. 19) British Royal Commission on the Sugar Supply , 231-32 British West Indies: and plantation system, 16,18; and US. sugar imports, 62,231; immigrant labor from, 149, I7 2, 237, 24 S, 246; date slavery abolished in, 2S4 (n. So). Jee also specific islands Brooks, Paul, S7 Bull, Ernest M., 232 Bunker, Albert, III, II 3 Bunker, George R., 37,41,79, 110, I II, 113 Bureau of Insular Affairs, US., 4 Calder, Bruce, 103, I7S California and Hawaiian Sugar Refining Company, 63, 93 California Sugar Refining Company, 33-34 Cambiaso Brothers, 194 Canada, 77, 23°,232 Canadian Bank of Commerce, 97 Canary Islanders, 28o (n. I I) Capital, 19,21-26; metropolitan, 19-20,2426 ,75,1°7,119-20,111, 24S; US. investment of, in Cuba, 77, 78,82, 8S-89, 94101 ; foreign investment of, in Dominican Republic, 102-7; and colonos, 124, 130, 133-34 Capitalism, 1-3,7-10,12,23,26,76 Caribbean New World Group, 253 (n. 19)' See also Plantation school theory Cartels, 39-40, 232 Castillo, Jose del, 176 Ceballos, Juan M., 57 Celorio, Benito, 214-1 S Central Aguirre Syndicate, 109 Central A1tagracia, 81, lOS Central Alto Cedro Sugar Company...