Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little more than a year he had closed plants in four New England towns, sold their machinery, abolished the jobs of 5,000 workers. Last week Roy Little announced that he would also close his sheet and blanket factory in Nashua, N.H., and open up six new plants in Puerto Rico. In Nashua 3,500 more workers were out of jobs...
...night long a steady stream of cars, buses and trucks inched its way toward San Juan. Puerto Rico's jibaros (farmers) were coming down from the hills for the Popular Democratic Party's convention. One morning last week, more than 100,000 of them jammed into Sixto Escobar Athletic Park. By the time the last "Viva!" died away, they had nominated 50-year-old Luis Munoz Marin, president of the Insular Senate, as their candidate in the island's first gubernatorial election...
Once a fiery advocate of Puerto Rican independence, Munoz now believes that both independence and statehood are best forgotten while the island builds up its economic health. His platform: industrialization, expansion of the social legislation which he wrote in the days before Governor Rexford G. Tugwell* arrived, a new Pureto Rican constitution by revision or replacement of the present Organic Act-to provide that no changes shall be made in Puerto Rico's governmental system without consulting the islanders...
...coalition of the Estadistas (an offshoot of the continental G.O.P.), the Reformists and the Socialists. They are pledged to work for statehood on a ticket headed by Martin Travieso, Chief Justice of Puerto Rico's Supreme Court...
...Knees. Even if all Munoz' strength lay in his beloved jibaros, most Puerto Rican politicos concede that he would win. But his magic also works with some middle-class intellectuals, and with the slumdwellers of San Juan's malodorous El Fanguito (TIME...