Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outside the United States, Canada leads with 47 students, followed by China, 27; England, 21; Hawaii, 19; France, 11; Puerto Rico, 8; Germany, 8; Mexico, 7; Belgium, 4; and Turkey, 4. Other countries, Colombia, Estonia, Iran, Italy, Japan, Norway, Switzerland, Alaska, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canal Zone, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Holland, Hungary, India, Ireland, Lithuania, Newfoundland, Nicaragua, Philippine Islands, Santo Domingo, Scotland, Siam, Spain, Straits Settlements, Sweden, South Africa, Roumania, and Syria...
...Burpee at once launched a feverish program of hybridization. Forty thousand cross-breedings were made in eleven months. To keep the new generations growing continuously under the best possible conditions, seeds were shipped by airplane to Miami, California, Puerto Rico, Argentina, by fast steamer to Australia. In California alone, 100 Japanese girls were hired to do nothing but pollinate the blossoms. To prevent bees from messing up the experiments with promiscuous pollinations, it was found necessary to clip the petals. In January 1934 Mr. Burpee announced May delivery of seeds for the varicolored, ten-petaled hybrids, a whole growing season...
...From San Juan, Puerto Rico, went the huge Army Douglas amphibion Duck, covering the 919 miles in 7 hr. 12 min. to win another world record, for airline distance for amphibions...
...Knockout." Thus did Challenger Sixto Escobar, swart, pint-sized Puerto Rican, haltingly predict to newshawks last week the outcome of his bout with Champion Lou Salica for the world's bantamweight crown. When the savage 15-round struggle was over, Escobar was proved two-thirds correct. By a steady body attack, he won the decision, reversed the result of their first meeting three months...
...Otto Herbert Falk, militia general and Marquette University regent, was named receiver. In time Receiver Falk became President Falk, then (1932) Chairman Falk, still sits at the head of the directors' table at a salary of $36,000 per year. He saw Spanish War service in Cuba and Puerto Rico. He omits pomp & ceremony, answers the telephone himself, keeps no one waiting, replied to a newsman's request for an appointment, with a wire reading, "Will be in my office from ten to four tomorrow." Smooth-faced, thin-haired, he offers visitors cigars, smokes an old black pipe...