Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only ocean. Gist of his report: the game had failed to demonstrate conclusively whether a foreign fleet could penetrate the U. S. first line of defense and gain a military foothold in the Western Hemisphere, but had proved that the Navy needs added bases in the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Piquant detail of the game: a defense patrol plane, from an altitude of 15,000 ft., far at sea, and undetected even by the umpires, spied for 30 hours and reported by radio on the approaching "enemy" warships...
...110th Street, Manhattan's sveltly starched Fifth Avenue passes the extreme northeast tip of Central Park, plunges into a new world-the teeming, Spanish-speaking slums, or barrio, of Lower Harlem. Mainly inhabited by Puerto Ricans, with a peppering of Cubans, Spaniards, Filipinos, Mexicans, it is one of the poorest, noisiest, brightest, muskiest, most musical and least written-about foreign quarters in Manhattan...
...developments gave prominence to the Spanish question. First, a conference between Claude G. Bowers, U. S. Ambassador to Loyalist Spain, and Undersecretary of State Summer Welles, and secondly, doubtful but persistent reports that Franco's regime considers asking the return of Puerto Rice, former Spanish possession now held by the United States...
...FLEET PROBLEM XX, FEB. 2O ISSUE, SHOWING "DON JUAN, PUERTO RICO" SWELL BUT WE SPELL IT SAN JUAN. CORDIALLY INVITE ALL AMERICAN GIRLS COME DOWN SEE US SOMETIME...
...eastern boundary to Norfolk, Va. Or they might seek to break through one of the many entrances to the Caribbean and attack the Panama Canal. Belief that the attackers' air forces, at least, had broken through the defense cordon grew when 150 to 175 planes swarmed over Puerto Rico. One plane crashed mysteriously into the sea off St. Kitts (British...