Series 77 contains records
of the Cuba Sugar Finance and Export Corporation, a company created in
1921 to expedite the sale of surplus Cuban sugars after the disastrous
market collapse known as "The Dance of the Millions." The corporation
was organized after the establishment of the Sugar Finance Committee. (See
narrative for Record Group II for additional information on the committee.)
Of the 10,000 shares in the initial subscription issued by the company
one half were owned by the Czarnikow-Rionda Company or companies affiliated
to it. The company was organized under the laws of Cuba, but the
principal business was conducted in the company's New York office.
The records in this
series are from the New York office of the corporation. Included
in the series are copies of minutes, in Spanish, of the Board of Directors
and Executive Committee, correspondence, and various financial records.
Box 1
Minutes, in Spanish, with English
abstracts, 1921-1922
Report on accounts 1922
Daily balances and loan statements,
May-July 1921
Correspondence, 1921-1923
Correspondence with A.S. de Bustamante,
Lawrence Crosby, Aurelio
Portuondo, E.H. Costello,
and Havana office, 1921-1924
Correspondence with A.S. de Bustamante,
1921-1924
14 documents re Cuba Sugar Finance
& Export Corp., 1922-1923
Correspondence, 1924-1925
(folder #1)
Box 2
Correspondence, 1924-1925
(folder #2)
Unidentified correspondence, 1924-1928
Box 3
Letterbooks 1 and 2, 1921-1922