Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four hundred and fifty-five years after Columbus discovered the island, Puerto Rico at last elected its own governor.* Last week's election brought neither surprises nor upsets; somber-eyed Luis Muñoz Marin, leader of the Popular Democratic Party, rolled to victory with 62% of the 629,000 votes cast...
Trailing far behind were Chief Justice Martin Travieso, whose platform called for statehood, and Dr. Francisco M. Susoni, who had plumped for immediate independence of the U.S. Though virtually all Puerto Ricans wanted one or the other of these things, most had been convinced that Muñoz' moderate program of industrialization and economic development was a surer way of getting them...
...Harried by competition from brisk, unscheduled Trans Caribbean Airways, Pan Am last week made one of the industry's steepest cuts. To lure passengers on its Puerto Rican run it instituted a "coach" service. By ripping out the galley and some baggage racks, it now puts 63 (v. 52) passengers into its DC-4 planes, has cut the one-way fare from $133 to $75 (plus...
...Textileman Little the deal offered by the Puerto Rican government looked too good to turn down. Hot after new industries, Puerto Rico will build him six plants for $6,000,000, sell them to his Puerto Rican subsidiary for $500,000 down and let him pay off the rest out of profits, tax free for twelve years. Another incentive was Puerto Rican labor at 25? to 75? an hour as against $.90 to $1.30 in Nashua...
...Nashua, where one-fourth of the working force was employed by Textron, Roy Little's Puerto Rican deal looked like a death sentence. Cried a local labor leader: "A disaster for the entire community." A textile man was just as sore. "It is ridiculous," said he, "to demand that labor act with responsibility while capital takes an irresponsible attitude...