Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mormacwave, with Plimsoll marks awash, was warped gingerly into Dock C of Buenos Aires' Puerto Nuevo, and the longshoremen went to work on her. For the riches in her hold, her captain carried 1,700 manifests. His ship, 16 days out of New York, was crammed with machines, parts, motors, industrial tools, tinware, reinforcing bars, steel beams, yarn, toys, dental equipment, books, refrigerators full of penicillin...
...Puerto Rican sailor who had left Manhattan March 14 on an Army transport came down with smallpox in Bremerhaven. Manhattan officials promptly began a hunt for his Manhattan friends...
...Philadelphia, the housemaid shortage was slightly bettered when a pioneer contingent of eight wide-eyed Puerto Rican women flew in, promptly scattered to local homes where they were guaranteed at least a year's employment. Their sponsor: Philadelphia Employment Agent Edgar Rolle, who spotted the remote womanpower pool, arranged with the Puerto Rican Government to fly the domestics...
...Rockets Hail. Six thousand miles away from Oahu, amphibious tactics were being dusted off for the benefit of boot sailors and marines. Against the uninhabited part of Culebra Island, near Puerto Rico, the Missouri fired one-ton shells from its 16-inch rifles, and landing craft loosed a hail of rockets. Marine Corps planes strafed the beach when 5,000 leathernecks "storming" it called...
...Paris, Señora Lucienne Benitez Rexach, wife of a Puerto Rican millionaire, drowned her sorrows in champagne. From her hotel suite outside Paris, thieves had stolen $435,000 of her jewels and pocket money. But the victim, who before her recent marriage was a café singer known to Montmartre as Môme Moineau (Kid Sparrow), considers the burglars outrageously inefficient: in the same suite they overlooked another cache of jewels (value...