Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born in Cincinnati 68 years ago, handsome Bishop Leonard, one of the few Methodist Bishops who wore a clerical collar, served churches in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Rome, Italy, was elected a Bishop in 1916. Since 1939 he served as resident Bishop of the Washington Area. A militant prohibitionist, he was once president of New York's Anti-Saloon League, was famed among Methodists for his forthright sermons, his uncompromising attitudes...
...Army doctors discovered the organism of pneumonia (George Miller Sternberg, almost simultaneously with Pasteur in 1881), of tooth decay (Puerto Rican Major Fernando Emilio Rodriguez, 1921), trench fever, three types of dysentery...
...name from the Greek word meaning "life strength," was born in the Virgin Islands, of French and Danish parents. Schooled in Corsica and Paris, at 19 he was an up-&-coming banker in Manhattan, grew a luxuriant beard to disguise his youth. While on a trip to Puerto Rico the local telephone company almost fell into his lap. He went into the telephone business, in 1924 got King Alphonso of Spain to contract for I.T. & T. telephone service in Spain. Last week cosmopolitan Mr. Behn reported that seme 61% of I.T. & T.'s assets are in the Americas (mainly...
...live births last year-enough to make any health officer whistle.* When the owners began the medical program in 1929, the rate on a typical plantation was 160.6 among half a dozen nationalities: Filipinos, Japanese, a conglomerate of Hawaiians, Chinese and Caucasians, a sprinkling of Portuguese and Puerto Ricans...
...terminals, loaded with beef and mutton from the brown seared grasslands of the pampas, stocking up meat faster than the British ships along the wharves can take it away. Eight million tons of wheat and 3,000,000 tons of linseed cram the new elevators of Buenos Aires, Puerto Nuevo, Rosario. The warehouses are filled with hides and wool. There they say what they want after the war: something better for the plain people of the world. Better education, more books, social justice, freedom to come and go, more shipping, the growth of home industries, lower prices, more confidence, better...