Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...command the entire Caribbean defense area (Panama, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, six other bases), 57-year-old Major General Frank Maxwell Andrews (Air Forces) succeeds finicky, 62-year-old Lieut. General Daniel Van Voorhis (Cavalry). The Caribbean Defense Command is the biggest field job yet given an Army airman. The change is also a drastic remedy for one of the Army's sore spots. As General Van Voorhis' subordinate air commander, in an area where air defense is paramount, Frank Andrews had been kicked into a back corner, given little chance to do his all-important job. Already tried...
...take the itch out of mosquito bites, Dr. William Albert Hoffman of Puerto Rico's School of Tropical Medicine recommends dabbing the bites with a piece of cotton moistened with a few drops of chloroform. It is supposed to work best if done while the bites are new. Precaution: keep chloroform away from eyes and mouth-it burns...
...said Luis Muñoz Marin, Puerto Rico's most extraordinary politician, in his Fourth of July speech in San Juan. Of all the great mass of oratory on the Fourth-the sincere, the deeply-felt, the mechanical-his was perhaps the most imaginative. For Muñoz Marin, around again after his illness (TIME, March 31), did not merely spout the old phrases or wave the old words. He appealed for a united celebration of all the independence days of the Western Hemisphere (Cuba's May 20, Argentina's May 25, Venezuela's July...
WALDEMAR F. LEE Pro Arte Musical de Puerto Rico San Juan...
...four defense bases in Puerto Rico classes in English have been started for island recruits...