Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army for 35 years, Lt. Col. Tuttle served as professor of military science and tactics at the University of Puerto Rico, Syracuse University, the University of Akron, and other schools...
Many foreigners confuse Costa Rica with Puerto Rico. This does not bother the Costa Ricans so much as the more common failure to distinguish between their peaceful republic and the rest of Central America-which last week continued to tremble with political earthquake shocks. Costa Rica, they insist, is a very different cornucopia of good things...
Although the graduates represented some 30 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, over 20 are residents of New England, with the majority of these coming from Massachusetts...
...through the purchase of small distillers. (The report did not note that the little companies often willingly took this golden opportunity to get a war-high price for their businesses.) The subcommittee also cited, as evidence of a trend to monopoly, the Big Four-owned distilleries in Cuba and Puerto Rico...
...Quakers alone now have 13 work camps in the U.S., three in Mexico, one in Puerto Rico. Colleges from Pennsylvania's Swarthmore to Kansas' Wichita give credits for theses based on camp projects, hashed out in camp seminars staffed with college teachers. The eight-week sessions cost the student $100 (but scholarships are available). Their Quaker sponsors expect to find plenty of work in postwar Europe for work-camp alumni...