Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spanish Harlem." The Okies were mainly California's problem. The problem of the Puerto Ricans is chiefly New York's; more than 90% of them land in New York City. Estimates are that 350,000 are now in burgeoning colonies in Manhattan, Brooklyn and The Bronx. The worst congestion is in "Spanish Harlem," a slum of old, dark, dirt-crusted, cold-water tenements on Manhattan's upper East Side...
...Some of Puerto Rico's economic D.P.s have already gone back to their land, discouraged by what they find in the U.S. But the great majority hold on; bad as Harlem is, it is better than life in Puerto Rico. Hundreds of the migrants save enough in a year to make bargain-rate flights back to San Juan, only to return to New York with their relatives...
...Puerto Rico's home government, which knows that migration is the best and easiest solution to the island's unemployment, hopes that somebody will work out a plan to channel the migrants to U.S. farm and industrial areas. Any diversion of the flood would take a lot of doing; the Puerto Rican in New York or San Juan is subject to no more restrictions or compulsions than any other U.S. citizen...
...Some charter airlines carry Puerto Ricans back to San Juan for as little as $37.50 a head. The fare on scheduled airlines: $130. A fortnight ago, a Civil Aeronautics Board hearing found that the converted C-47 transport which carried 21 to death in a Florida crash (TIME, July 21) had been overloaded by about one ton of Puerto Ricans and their baggage. Aboard when the plane crashed were 36 people...
...talkers were young Cubans out for adventure and a chance to strike at dictatorship. Some may have been Communists; some were Communism's most ardent enemies. But there were also Dominicans. For weeks Dominican exiles had been trickling into Havana, by plane and boat from the U.S., Puerto Rico, Venezuela and Guatemala. Something was up, and that something was a filibuster in the romantic Caribbean's best tradition...