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...educate adults-a 19-lesson course, with films, lectures and discussion groups. It meets for two hours twice a week, covers every field of postwar reform from taxes and public health to trade unionism and the new constitution. Given in seventh-grade language, it is designed to teach 30 million adults, in the next five years, "the principles of democracy which everyone can understand...
...Marin, the first popularly elected Governor of Puerto Rico, and the 122nd since Ponce de León, settled down last week to review the bills just passed by the island legislature. Don Luis liked most of the new bills, and the new budget in particular. It totaled $94 million and 46% of it was earmarked for health and education...
...legislature had also allotted more than $12 million for capital improvements such as highways and hospitals, more than $11 million for capital contributions for sewers, aqueducts, housing, and irrigation. But that was only a start on Muñoz' program to make the island a better place to live. He planned soon to call a special session to provide for new schools, instruction for illiterates (25% of the island's population), child care, and the organization of cooperative stores...
...private investment-is as basic as hard work. Since 1898 the U.S.-which was first indifferent and then embarrassed about the poor child on its doorstep-has spent over a billion dollars in or on Puerto Rico. Last year the Federal Government, in one way or another, spent $101 million in the island...
...chief government agency in the drive for production is the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Corp., set up in 1942 under the wartime governorship of Rexford Guy Tugwell. PRIDC, which has spent about $27 million to establish new industries (the new island budget allots $1,700,000 for the corporation), started the ball rolling by setting up five factories to make cement, glass, paper board, shoe-leather products, clay products. Later, it began a hard driving campaign to sell private companies on Puerto Rico as a place for business...