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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visit with his old friend, Governor Luis Muñoz Marin, went on, Figueres' enthusiasm for the "free, associated commonwealth" of the U.S. grew steadily. In a speech to a joint session of the legislature, he suggested the eventual political and economic integration of all the Americas. As an immediate economic step, he pleaded for what amounted to U.S. crop supports for Latin American agricultural products (coffee, sugar, bananas). "Three years ago," he recalled, "Costa Rica was persuaded to cultivate more cocoa, then selling for $65. So we planted more cocoa, using our own modest purse. Now cocoa sells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUERTO RICO: The Freedom You Breathe | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

...agriculture, which Ruiz Cortines and his eager, able Agriculture Minister Gilberto Flores Muñoz (TIME. Aug. 1) have emphasized with increased loans, irrigation appropriations and fertilizer plants, the President was able to report a 20% increase in production and alltime record yields of Mexico's basic export crops, coffee and cotton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Problems & Progress | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

...Luis Muñoz-Marin, governor of Puerto Rico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos, Jun. 27, 1955 | 6/27/1955 | See Source »

Nowadays, Trumpeters Allen and Charlie Shavers head two fulltime, six-man bands that include jazz-gifted oldtimers Clarinetist Buster Bailey, Pianist Claude Hopkins, Bassist Milt Hinton, and Trombonist "Big Chief" (350 Ibs.) Russell Moore. With the help of six other mu icians who gather in smaller combos, they play their way from a slow 3 p.m. start to a frenzied 3 a.m. finish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dixie Slot | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

...memorable Lamps of China has not lost its skill. After journeying to Hong Kong last year, at 72, she has reached deep into the heart of the present darkness. Her novel evokes the "New China"-public confessions, students marching and singing. "Defeat the savage-hearted American wolf," brainwashed Mu San leading a party of schoolchildren to a beheading in order to harden Communist discipline. Venture into Darkness is a terrifying look at a tyranny trying to convert China into "600 million mindless people, swayed by the mind of one man, one idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Oil for Old Lamps | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

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