Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Europe have come 57 students, many of whom have declared intention of making their permanent homes here. This number includes ten from Nazi Germany, two from Falangist Spain, and one from Soviet Russia. The Philippine Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Canal Zone, which are United States territories, have sent four students; the British South American and Caribbean possessions are also the homes of four...
...Asked Congress 1) to let Puerto Ricans decide how much independence they wanted, 2) to appropriate $221,000,000 for public works interrupted...
Shaken but still hopeful, De Ferrari took the children on to the mission school at Puerto Ayacucho. They stole clothes, tried to set fire to the buildings. One night they stole away. They were not seen again...
...sugar cane too close to the ground in 1944. Not only does it take 18 months for the growth to come back to normal, but Cuba this year suffered its worst drought in 86 years, resulting in a sugar loss of 900,000 tons. Hawaiian and Puerto Rican production was way down...
Economically, producing sugar is a terrible risk: it requires big capital investment and reaps a microscopic profit margin. This has led to cutthroat competition between the domestic beet bloc and the cane producers in Cuba, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. To protect themselves, the beet men for 25 years operated an intense and effective lobby to get Congress to erect tariff walls and pay subsidies. In 1934 they jammed through a quota system that gave them 25% of the 6,000,000 tons of sugar consumed in the U.S. One of their most cogent arguments for protection: a strong...