Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plenty & Starvation. U.S. food exports to Latin America and the West Indies in 1939 totaled $50 million; now they are negligible. Argentina and Brazil are suffering because they cannot export crops, yet vast regions of the South American west coast and Panama, Trinidad, Puerto Rico are near starvation. Puerto Rico needs a minimum 110,000 tons of shipping a month to bring in supplies, is getting only 30,000 tons...
...crowded U.S. routes. Lowell Yerex of Central American flying fame asked for two routes each for his TACA and British West Indian Airways. KLM Royal Dutch Air Lines asked a route to the Dutch West Indies. The other three surviving new applicants are Florida-born National Airlines; Aerovias Nacionales Puerto Rico; and Cuba's new Expreso Aero Inter-Americano. Meanwhile Pan American's own belligerent half-subsidiary Panagra (TIME, March 16) still has an application pending for a terminus in Miami, Tampa or New Orleans...
Panama Canal Zone, Puerto Rico, Guam and Hawaii by the time of the Armistice. There were also 300 marinettes or Marine Corps girls. But none were officers...
Unanswered Question. When Admiral Leahy was ready for retirement in 1939, Franklin Roosevelt decided he was too good a horse to turn out to pasture, made him Governor of Puerto Rico, then pulled him out for the U.S.'s toughest diplomatic mission: emissary to Vichyfrance. As Chief of Staff to the Commander in Chief, Seadog Leahy will need diplomacy. Working directly with and under the President, he will be over the Army's Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall and the Navy's COMINCH Admiral Ernest Joseph King. But whether Leahy would be a real boss...
...chief U.S. proponent of Puerto Rican home rule has been curly-haired, idealistic Governor Tugwell, onetime Brain Truster. Last week, as reports circulated that he would resign before home rule arrives to give way to a President-appointed native chief executive, Reformer Tugwell was in Washington pleading for more food for the 1,869,245 Puerto Ricans. Despite the temporary boom caused by military expansion, the island is still desperately poor. Many of its children are underfed, much of its population (31.1%) is illiterate. The wages of the jibaros who work the sugar plantations are woefully low. Both...