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FreightWaves Classics is sponsored by Sutton Transport, an LTL leader in the Midwest for more than 40 years. Sutton Transport proudly services Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri and Wisconsin. Request a quote here. In this week’s edition, from the July 1974 issue of American Shipper (virtual pages 27-29), FreightWaves Classics looks back at the U.S.-Cuba stalemate during the Nixon administration. On Jan. 1, 1959, the regime of Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista crumbled under the weight of two years of protracted guerrilla warfare and Batista was forced to flee the island. What was supposed to be a democratically inspired revolution headed by the...
