Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Puerto Rico's sugar economy cannot support a population (2,045,000 in 1946) which has more than doubled since the U.S. took the island as a dependency after the Spanish-American War. About one in eight employable Puerto Ricans has no job. The average family wage: $20 a month (about one-third of minimum needs by Puerto Rican standards...
...with cross-chop." Radiomen on other boats were more explicit: all hands were sick and wished they were dead. The yawl Emerald's crew let their stomachs guide them-back to port. Patolita lost her mainsail. One boat had hopefully taken along a dry-land chef. Near Catalina Island he was feeling poorly; he put to sea in a life preserver, was picked up and taken ashore in a guide boat...
...analysis of the news, CBS London then transfers its listeners to CBS Barcelona and Commentator Amerigo Vespucci. Comments Vespucci: "It is impossible to conceive the full significance of the news we have just heard. The land which Admiral Colón has just reached is Cibango, or the legendary island of Japan. . . . Shortly many will follow [him]. I will be among them...
Columbus: "In the name of the....King and Queen of Spain, I take possession of this island and name it...San Salvador...
...business grew, she acquired a 90-acre estate on Long Island. But social demands were never allowed to conflict with business. Soon after she married her second husband, an architect named Robert L. Dodge, he went to work for the company...