Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plants were in operation or planned; five other companies were dickering to set up factories. Biggest of the newcomers is Textron Inc., which abruptly closed its Nashua, N.H. plant (TIME, Sept. 27) and is now finishing the first of five factories to manufacture rayon and other textiles in Puerto Rico. Other new plants include Tele-tone (radio tubes and equipment), Crane China, Fashion Rite Gloves...
These industries, when fully operating, will create 10.000 new jobs. By 1960, according to Muñoz Marin's reckoning, Puerto Rico must have 300,000 new jobs; he believes it could be brought about with an industrial investment of from $600-$900 million. That would be a lot of dollars ; for Puerto Rico it would make a lot of sense. To guarantee ample power for expanding industry, the government is carrying out a major program of hydroelectric-energy development. Its goal is an output of 700 million kw-h a year by 1970. The latest step...
...government and PRIDC are also trying to expand existing Puerto Rican industries. To help the rum industry recapture part of its $14 million wartime U.S. market (when U.S. drinkers had to buy rum to get a bottle of Scotch), the island government will spend $750,000 this year on advertising and promotion. Then there is the tourist business, which the government hopes will bring the island an annual income of $16 million by 1952. With tourists in mind, PRIDC is putting $5,000,000 into San Juan's new Caribe Hilton Hotel (300 rooms...
Life Span. The first large group of U.S. visitors ever to come to Puerto Rico were the 3,415 troops commanded by Major General Nelson A. Miles, who splashed ashore on the beaches at Guanica to end the rule of Spain in 1898. By the peace treaty, Puerto Rico became a U.S. possession. Puerto Ricans have U.S. citizenship; their Resident Commissioner in Washington has a voice in Congress, but no vote. Congress has the right to repeal any act of the Puerto Rican legislature. The right has never been used, but its continued existence irks Puerto Ricans...
Until last year, Puerto Rico's Governors were appointed by the U.S. President, subject to Senate confirmation. Judges of the island's Supreme Court are still presidential appointees, but Puerto Ricans feel that they took a long step ahead in the democratic process when a new U.S. law allowed them to elect their own governor...