Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Month ago Pan Am put its fast new Boeing Stratoliners (land planes) on the over-water flight from Miami to Belem, Brazil, abandoning the overnight stop at Trinidad, resting overnight only at San Juan, Puerto Rico. Next week Douglas DC-35 will take over from Belem, fly 1,530 miles across country to Rio in nine hours, pausing briefly halfway at the new forest-shrouded airport at Barreiras. Abandoned will be the old two-day, 2,525-mile route along the seacoast with its overnight stop at Recife...
...latter, as consultant on the First Five Year Plan, Kahn designed factories at Stalingrad, Chelyabinsk, Kuznetsk, Nizhni-Tagil. Brother Moritz handled the job. For the U. S. he has just done the plans for $25,000,000 worth of new naval air bases at Midway Island, Honolulu, Alaska, Puerto Rico, Jacksonville...
...deputy, who acts as adjutant between the Chief and the rest of the staff and bosses the show when the Chief is away. In the past 14 months, he has made six circuits of the continental U. S., side trips (mostly by air) to Hawaii, Panama, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, and his deputy, balding 60-year-old Brigadier General William Bryden, has had plenty to do. Crack Artilleryman Bryden commanded artillery brigades in 1917-18, is the only member of the staff who was a general officer in World War I. When George Marshall called...
Cuba to Leewards. Second section of the hook ranges east to Anegada Passage, between the Virgin Islands and the Leewards. Farther from major U. S. establishments, this defensive sector of the Caribbean is proportionately more vulnerable, but is currently being strengthened. Its strong points are Puerto Rico and St. Thomas. At San Juan a cruiser dock and naval workshop are in construction, and off San Juan Harbor at Isla Grande, a naval air base is being built. Completed, the U. S. defenses at Puerto Rico will also have the eastern striking force of the Army Air Corps, flying fortresses capable...
Said Mr. Stimson: "France has been conquered and the sea power of Great Britain seems to be trembling in the balance. . . . We may be next. It is now recognized that if a powerful enemy secured a base at [Puerto Rico, Bermuda, Newfoundland, Northeastern Canada] ... it could launch a devastating air attack upon our eastern seaboard. ... In the metropolitan area of New York over 7,000,000 people are mainly dependent on a single water supply nearly 100 miles in length "I believe that we are facing a grave national emergency fraught with the possibility of immediate peril. I know that...