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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...Showers. Seamen's wages are up to ?24 a month minimum now, much more than before the war, when Labor politicians were yelling that the Queen Mary was a palace for the passengers with slave quarters for the crew. Now each seaman has a curtained bunk with a reading lamp of his own. Seamen have their own bar, plenty of shower baths and much more space than before. The big inducement, however, is the Queen Mary's food and the chance to buy in New York...
...Garssons had been convicted of giving May bribes of $53,000 while running a shoestring into a $78 million munitions combine (TIME, July 25, 1946 et seq.); all three faced maximum sentences of six years, fines of $30,000. Judge Henry A. Schweinhaut let them off with a minimum eight months, maximum two years; no fine...
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With a budget of more than $21,000, it was found that the 1947-48 Album could not meet the $6,000 minimum gap between expected subscription receipts and total costs without purveyor advertising...