Word: moscoso
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Double Profits. Any serious U.S. businessman who wants to start a factory or a branch plant in Puerto Rico gets kingly treatment from Bootstrap. Under Administrator Teodoro ("Ted") Moscoso, a briefcase-toting man in horn-rimmed spectacles who flouts Latin tradition by working 70 hours a week, EDA can offer mouth-watering inducements. It will provide the businessman with labor from its big files of workers, trained in everything from pastry-baking to power-sewing by one of the world's largest vocational schools. It will build a plant and rent it to him. Moving to Puerto Rico will...