Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soon the Caracas centers will be closed; all new immigrants will be taken to a reception center big enough to house 2,500 now building in El Trompillo, near Puerto Cabello, where some are already living in Quonset huts. Puerto Cabello is 130 miles from the lures of the capital. Venezuela wants frontiersmen...
Northwestward between Bermuda and Puerto Rico, a hurricane was boring in on the U.S. coast. From San Juan, the Navy's "hurricane hunters" skewered through its lethal winds in four-motored planes, probing for new weather information. On one flight last week, the United Press's Milton Carr went along. His account...
...nearly 50 years under U.S. control, Puerto Rico has elected all its own legislators. Last week, when President Truman signed a bill passed by the 80th Congress, Puerto Rico also got the right to elect its own governor, heretofore appointed by the White House. Nov. 2, 1948, general election day in the U.S., was the date set for the island's first gubernatorial election...
...Puerto Ricans rejoiced. The U.S. Department of the Interior, which helped push the election bill through Congress, was happy, too. Said Under Secretary Oscar L. Chapman: "People and nations all over the world . . . will see in [this law] evidence that the U.S. puts into practice its principles of democracy and self-determination...
...Puerto Ricans were painfully aware that a great deal of doctoring of their sick sugar economy would have to be done before they could assume the responsibilities either of statehood or, like the Filipinos, independence...