SUGAR

[Thomas H. Purvis]

William D. Pawley

Papers of Gerald Ford:

http://www.ibiblio.org/lia/president/FordL...d_vp_files_c023

Title: 1970-Campaign Finance-Pawley, William D. Congressional Elections, Campaign Funds, Grand Rapids, Sugar

Gulf & Western Corporation-----Issued in 1959 to Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner* and Smith, Inc.

Grand Rapids, Michigan

http://www.scripophily.net/guwecobepapi.html

Gulf & Western: Owner of South Puerto Rico Sugar (formerly South Porto Rico Sugar)

In the Kingdom of Big Sugar

http://www.mariebrenner.com/articles/bigsugar/fan2.html

"Okeelanta, a subsidary of South Puerto Rico Sugar, controlled 90,000 acres of sugar property in South Florida and 240,000 acres in the Dominican Republic.

"Previous reports of Cuban exile activity in the Dominican Republic had been linked to the huge Gulf & Western operation with it's many Cuban exiles in top management positions..."

http://archive.nacla.org/Summaries/V12I1P45-1.htm

"In 1956 my father was hired by the American owned South Puerto Rico Sugar Company to be the chief electrical engineer at the La Ramona Sugar Mill."

In the late 60's and early 70's the South Puerto Rico Sugar Company; including properties in Florida, Puerto Rico and the Dominican republic became part of the conglomerate Guly & Western industris;"

http://grove.ufl.edu/~flaco/Youth.html

LA ROMANA: 37 km east of San Pedro, has been a one-company town since the Southe Porto Rico Sugar Company build the mammoth Central Romana mill in 1917.

It was the only sugar operation not taken over by Trujillo during his reign.

http://dg.ian.com/index.jsp?cid=10429&acti...ocationId=43665

http://www.casadecampo.com.do/

Welcome to Casa de Campo

Welcome to Casa de Campo. This premiere resort in the Dominican Republic's La Romana region has everything you need for a perfect vacation

Romana Sugar/aka South Puerto Rico Sugar to Recreational Area.

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http://www.southernunionco.com/Press/122705.htm

SOUTHERN UNION COMPANY ANNOUNCES CASH DIVIDEND AND

ELECTION OF ALLAN D. SCHERER TO BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Scherer is a private investor in real estate, oil and gas.

Scherer was a consultant to Gulf & Western Corporation in its development of the Casa de Campo resort in the Dominican Republic from 1973 to 1978

About Southern Union Company

Southern Union Company is engaged primarily in the transportation, storage and distribution of natural gas.

Through Panhandle Energy, the company owns and operates 100% of Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Company, Trunkline Gas Company, Sea Robin Pipeline Company, Southwest Gas Storage Company and Trunkline LNG Company – one of North America’s largest liquefied natural gas import terminals. Through CCE Holdings, LLC, Southern Union also owns a 50% interest in and operates the CrossCountry Energy pipelines, which include 100% of Transwestern Pipeline Company and 50% of Citrus Corp. Citrus Corp. owns 100% of the Florida Gas Transmission pipeline system. Southern Union’s pipeline interests operate approximately 18,000 miles of interstate pipelines that transport natural gas from the San Juan, Anadarko and Permian Basins, the Rockies, the Gulf of Mexico, Mobile Bay, South Texas and the Panhandle regions of Texas and Oklahoma to major markets in the Southeast, West, Midwest and Great Lakes region.

Through its local distribution companies, Missouri Gas Energy, PG Energy and New England Gas Company, Southern Union also serves approximately one million natural gas end-user customers in Missouri, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Massachusetts.

For further information, visit www.southernunionco.com.

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