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Naturalization laws prodded the nation's early foreign-speaking immigrants to learn English, but the 700,000 Puerto Ricans who now form 10% of New York City's population were U.S. citizens when they arrived, and about half of them continue to speak nothing but Spanish. Last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: English Spoken Here | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

Since 1713, when British merchantmen began putting in at the River Plate, the British have had the inside track in Argentina. Britain is traditionally Argentina's best customer, and one of her chief suppliers. The railways are British-owned and operated, 5 o'clock tea at Harrods is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: ARGENTINA | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

"The World and America" is just one of the new ideas this team has developed. For instance, there's "Let's Learn Spanish," radio's first major attempt to teach Americans a foreign language, broadcast so far over 63 stations in 31 states. There is our South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 2, 1944 | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

Beset by its own labor shortages, the Santa Fe desperately sent whistling freights shuttling back & forth across the dusty prairies. At Enid, Okla., lean, hard-driving Foreman Tom Ingles set a goal of switching a car a minute, and made it.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: The Great Harvest | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

Evidence from Quebec. At its 59th annual convention in Quebec, the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada, representing 1,828 local unions, demanded that Mackenzie King's Labor Minister, Humphrey Mitchell, be fired at once. The convention cheered Ernest Ingles, delegate from Vancouver, as he charged that both the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Crisis on the Home Front | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

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