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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small, densely populated country such as Belgium can maintain a decent standard of living without a self-sustaining agriculture, because it has a high-geared industrial plant. But Puerto Rico is too poor in minerals and natural resources ever to support heavy manufacturing. It can and must develop light and medium industry. The alternative would be a future in which only an ever-increasing dole from the U.S. could prevent starvation. That is why Muñoz Marin, applying the self-help principles of the Marshall Plan, has enlisted Puerto Rico in the uphill struggle...
Life Span. The first large group of U.S. visitors ever to come to Puerto Rico were the 3,415 troops commanded by Major General Nelson A. Miles, who splashed ashore on the beaches at Guanica to end the rule of Spain in 1898. By the peace treaty, Puerto Rico became a U.S. possession. Puerto Ricans have U.S. citizenship; their Resident Commissioner in Washington has a voice in Congress, but no vote. Congress has the right to repeal any act of the Puerto Rican legislature. The right has never been used, but its continued existence irks Puerto Ricans...
...about the day: "You know, when they inaugurated me I had $17 in the bank. I had to tell them to get me out a paycheck right away." Muñoz has never cared about money, and his present salary ($10,600 a year) is the largest he has ever earned; before his election he was living on his $94 weekly wage as an editor of the daily newspaper Diario de Puerto Rico...
...from one eye to another has been known for more than 100 years, but surgeons are still trying to improve it. For two days in Manhattan last week, eye specialists from the U.S. and eight foreign countries discussed the delicate operation at the first International Symposium on Corneal Surgery ever held, sponsored by the Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration...
Texans are that way about quarter-horses, a cow-pony type bred for a short, dizzy burst of speed. Still, Fred Hooper figured that his thoroughbred, Olympia, could run a faster short burst than any horse he had ever seen. No one knows exactly how much money changed hands that day on the quarter-mile match race between Stella Moore, the quarter-horse from Texas, and Olympia, the finely tempered thoroughbred. The race-track experts themselves leaned toward the quarter-horse. But tall (6 ft. 2½ in.) Fred Hooper quietly covered all bets-and saw his thoroughbred...