Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...named Will and his mother added "B" to the boy's to distinguish father and son. He studied finance at Wharton School, worked for the Manhattan accounting firm of Haskins & Sells, helped Charles Evans Hughes investigate New York insurance companies. In 1906 Roosevelt I named him assistant auditor of Puerto Rico. Three years later he was called home to overhaul Philadelphia's accounting system, became chief accountant in the office of the city controller. He did so good a job that in a few years he was recognized as an international authority on municipal finance...
...Puerto Pinasco, Property of the International Products Co. (an American concern), with a capital of more than 4,000,000 gold pesos and employing 2,300 workers...
...Puerto Casado. 3,000 inhabitants. A railroad connects the forest with the port. The estimated capital invested in Puerto Casado exceeds six million gold pesos. In the estancias there are 80,000 head of cattle...
...Puerto Sastre. Population 5,000, with an investment of 2,000,000 gold pesos in the tannin and cattle industries...
...Granite City, Ill. (25,000 pop.) would have to devote themselves exclusively and persistently to murder, rape, arson, embezzlement and kidnapping to make the stir which the Virgin Islands have created during the past year. Three beauteous tropic specks off the eastern coast of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands have helped split a President's Cabinet, drawn a steady stream of investigators and newshawks, kept themselves prominent in the nation's Press by as fantastic a comedy of political manners as the U. S. is ever likely to behold...