Word: rican
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Right after Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Government frantically prepared to supply the United Nations with sugar on the assumption that we might be cut off from Hawaiian and even Puerto Rican supplies. Cuba promptly upped production by 15% and produced some 4,500,000 tons of sugar and molasses in 1942 and sold most of it to the U.S. at 2.65? a Ib. f.o.b., only a shade above the 1941 market...
Remedies. There was no mistaking the urgency in Washington, but the remedies applied to date have been inadequate. Month ago, WPA upped its Puerto Rican quota from 18,000 to 25,000. But this was just a drop in the bucket: unemployment has risen to 322,000, almost half the island's employables. The war Shipping Administration's promise of 30,000 tons of shipping space a month was coupled with the admission that this "practically cuts the island off from shipping commerce." (In normal times, .shipping averaged four times as much.) Most help came from the Agricultural...
...feel, with nearly two million native Puerto Rican American citizens, that you owe us an apology. As a subscriber of many years' standing I am surprised and ashamed to see my favorite periodical gratuitously insult our people and falsify the facts in so brazen a manner; to wit: there are no jungles in Puerto Rico; as to swamps, there are some few hundred acres which are yearly being eliminated by reclamation. Surely we have slums in Borinquén bella, but absolutely not in the proportion your article insinuates. As to rum, let me inform you that more than...
...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...
...first-aiders hovered over each; extra workers entertained them with cards and checkers, plied them with magazines, cigarets, candy. Miss Loretta Besa, formerly of Santiago, Chile, now a New Englander, was called in to interpret the sailors' Spanish. She took down a letter from a Puerto Rican to his wife: "Dear Wife, I am O.K. Everything is about the same." One sailor refused to eat until he found out the food was free. All his money went down with the ship. A luckier sailor was found in the kitchen drying $300 over the stove...