Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were other sparks flying to indicate what shape U.S. policy was gradually taking on the anvil of events. In Congress, a bill was introduced to give Puerto Rico-which has long demanded independence-the choice of three alternatives: independence, statehood or a new wrinkle, dominion status. And at a White House conference with Philippine President Sergio Osmena, an interested conferee was Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal, who has repeatedly said the U.S. must keep some of the Pacific bases which its Navy...
...Navy prompted Berlin newspapers to attack him as a "warmonger." For some other remarks he made about the regimentation of labor in Soviet Russia he was obliged to make a public apology. In 1939, his tour of duty as CNO completed, Mr. Roosevelt sent him to Puerto Rico to govern that hot and troubled island. The President did not pack him off to get him out of the way. Puerto Rico needed a steadying rein. It got it. The retired Admiral governed with a fair, gloved hand. A newspaper columnist nicknamed him El Lija, a Spanish play on his name...
Nobody could quite explain the Dodgers' second-place splurge. They had been doped to waddle along in seventh place, or worse. But Manager Leo Durocher's pre-season prediction that he would uncork some useful pitchers had come true. The hitters, led by Puerto Rican Luis Olmo had made a habit of coming through in the clutch. These tangible assets, and the old Flatbush urge to die for dear old Durocher. had enabled the Dodgers to win eleven straight for a season record...
...Puerto Princesa in Palawan, American troops came on the wreckage of the police barracks, where the Japanese had held 150 American prisoners from Bataan. There, as liberation day approached, the Japanese had forced their prisoners into underground air-raid shelters, then poured in gasoline and tossed in torches. A few men had managed to get out, run through spraying Japanese machine-gun fire and escaped. All the rest died...
...Neostibosan, an antimony compound, seems to have cured eleven out of 33 Puerto Rican filariasis patients. Drs. Harry Rose and James T. Culbertson of Columbia University, who have given the treatments since last April, believe that the drug may eventually cure some of their other patients. (The disease sometimes results in the monstrous swellings of elephantiasis.) This is good news for U.S. troops in the Southwest Pacific area...