Word: jamaica
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which President Arias was elected, with the help of his steamroller machine. Arnulfo Arias is a young and patriotic man who fears his native land is losing its identity. He has seen most of its retail business taken over by Chinese, Eastern Europeans and East Indians. He has seen Jamaica Negroes, first imported to build the Canal, monopolize jobs on that waterway. He has seen the import business, utilities and banking taken over by Anglo-Saxon Americans, by the British and by Germans. He has heard English spoken on the streets as freely as Spanish; he has read street signs...
Others officers for the coming year include Bowden Broadwater '42 of Oakland, Md. and 53 Mt. Auburn St., Pegasus; John Bottomly '43 of Jamaica Plain and Dunster House, Business Manager; Frederick A. Jacobi '43 of Northampton, Mass. and Lowell House, Circulation Manager...
...Jamaica Plain, Mass...
...Jamaica, 80 miles south of Cuba and 500 miles north of the Panama Canal, is the only new U. S. base squarely within the Caribbean. For big, rugged Jamaica, the U. S. Navy has big plans : an anchorage at Portland Bight, in Galleon Harbor 33 square miles of land base; 100 acres near Williamsfield for a recreation centre and hospital mess ; a mile-square area south of May Pen for an emergency and auxiliary landing field. Near by at Port Royal the British naval dockyard, long neglected, will be improved by the U. S., providing the U. S. Navy with...
Last week engineers were hard at work in Bermuda (most important of the eight bases), reconditioning and expanding the new U. S. outpost. There, at Newfoundland and at Jamaica a lot of work must be done before base sites become effective bases. The job will take both time and money - of which money last week seemed to be the more plentiful...