Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sugar cane, the cash crop. That leaves less than half an acre of land per person for other crops and food production, and much of this land is eroded and exhausted. Unless Puerto Rico can perform a near-miracle of lifting itself by its own economic bootstraps, the problem of feeding the island will surely grow worse. With one of the world's highest birth rates (31.3 v. 24.4 per 1,000 in the U.S.), Puerto Rico's people are increasing at the rate of 69,000 a year. The population has more than doubled in the half...
...Marin, once a Socialist, knows now that government-spending alone will not solve Puerto Rico's problem. If the island is to build a sound economy, and to live without the crutch of federal handouts, it needs private industry and old-fashioned capitalist help. Says Muñoz: "I am out to increase production by any possible means-private, public, or mixed, as the case may be." To describe his government's part in industrial development, he coined his own neatly tailored phrase: "venture government." As Muñoz sees the problem: "Somebody's got to take...
...jobs will still be plentiful. Dieticians, nurses, teachers, metallurgical and ceramic engineers should have no trouble at all. Chemical and mechanical engineers will also be in fairly good demand, though some will have a better chance if they go East after graduation. Nonspecialists, however, have a different kind of problem...
...conditions," said he, "are still at a high level." But industries "are tightening up . . . weeding out the misfits and incompetents . . . Job opportunities are still here, but you'll have to beat the bushes more efficiently and thoroughly than last year's graduates." Thereupon, he took up the problem of just what the efficient bushbeater should...
Overconfidence will pose the only problem for the varsity crew as it faces MIT and Boston University in the second race of the season at 5:30 p.m. this afternoon...