Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poor to get in the corps. In fiscal 1938, arrivals at over 1,500 CCCamps included 253,776 needy, unemployed, unmarried "junior enrollees" from 17 to 23; 17,707 war veterans unlimited by age or marital status; 9,500 Indians on Government reservations; 4,800 indigent Territorials in Alaska, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Virgin Islands...
...improvement of eleven other bases given priority by the Hepburn Board. In addition to extending a defensive half-circle from Alaska to Guam to Samoa around the Navy's present westernmost major stronghold at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, these would include a new base in the Caribbean at Puerto Rico, expansion of aviation facilities at Jacksonville and Pensacola, Fla. Companion Army measures would allot $62,000,000 to strengthen Panama Canal defenses, supplement naval bases in the Atlantic and Pacific with Army personnel and equipment...
Gifts from many sources included rare plants from tropical Africa, China, Alaska, Cuba, Italy, Philippine Islands, Crete, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and various parts of Canada and continental United States. Field expeditions gathered specimens in Louisiana, North Carolina, Kentucky, Virginia and Dominica, and thousands of other specimens were acquired by purchase or exchange throughout the world...
...interdepartmental committee to think up things the U. S. Government can do for Latin America. Last week Mr. Welles reported to the President that 13 depart ments and agencies had thought up $998,804 worth. Samples : Agriculture can spend $75,000 for a Tropical Forest Experiment Station in Puerto Rico; Treasury, $27,714 to send a Coast Guard patrol boat and one cutter on a demonstration cruise; Library of Congress, $27,200 to show Latin Ameri cans how to use and catalog their libraries, $10,000 to present their 20 Governments with photostats of "fundamental American documents"; Federal Communications Commission...
Fourteen miles east of Puerto Rico's San Juan harbor is the wooded, 36-acre island of Santiago. There 500 macaques, or rhesus monkeys, landed last week, having voyaged 14,000 miles from India in 51 days. Columbia University intends to establish on Santiago a "free-ranging primate colony." Purpose: research on primate behavior, glands, reproduction and tropical diseases. As from Alcatraz, the only mode of escape from Santiago is by swimming...