Word: rican
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expedition will include from four to six planes. The planes must have a gasoline capacity of 1500 miles. They are now being selected by Lieut. Erik H. Nelson, who was engineer officer on the recent Alaskan and Porto Rican flights. Two points are certain. They will be equipped with Liberty motors (still the most reliable aero engine built) and will be of American design. The joy of victory in Macready and Kelly's transcontinental flight was sadly marred by the thought that they flew in a Fokker plane...
...Porto Rican Legislature recently authorized a commission to visit Washington to urge this end. In Washington last week Secretary of War Weeks fortified himself for the visit of the Commission by consulting with Major General Mclntyre, chief of the Insular Bureau. Doubtless he will give the islanders a cordial welcome. But he expressed the opinion that under the present regime Porto Rico is enjoying unparalleled prosperity...
Tuberculosis. " Cures " for tuberculosis emanated from France, Germany, Spain inside of one month. Rafael Santos, 25-year-old Porto Rican medical student in Paris, constructed a set of lenses for introducing sun rays and ultraviolet rays into the lungs without injury to tissue, claiming it would kill all tuberculosis bacilli in less than half an hour...
...like the Balkans it is a series of cloudbursts. In Porto Rico it is a geyser-spurting periodically. The recent Governor of Porto Rico, E. Mont Reily, left office under criticism, if not because of it. His successor, Horace M. Towner, had hardly come within range of the Porto Rican geyser before he began to be spattered with mud. Politicians in Porto Rico are divided into three parts. Of these, the Unionists are the dominant group. San Juan, the capital on the North coast, is their stronghold, and they favor Porto Rican independence. The next strongest group are the Republicans...
...Informal meeting of the Circulo Espanol to be held tonight at 7.30 o'clock in Conant Hall 45, Mr. Jose S. Pla '22 will discuss Porto Rican affairs from the point of view of the improvements brought about by the American administration. He will then outline the problems now confronting the government with regard to the future status of the Island...