Word: rican
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...women towards the great awakening." His relation with his island's straw-hatted jibaros is still pitched to that emotional key, but in eight years as President of the Insular Senate and chief of the ruling Popular Democrats he has also learned some sober facts of Puerto Rican life...
Last fortnight, after an unidentified plane buzzed his mosquito-bitten border towns, the dictator ordered his armed AT6 trainers to patrol the Costa Rican border, to shoot down intruders on sight. "I will permit no more violations of the national territory," he thundered. Just in case the Legion should make Honduras the road to Nicaragua, Tacho deployed 500 National Guardsmen along his northern frontier, sent 200 right into Honduras to help his friend Carias...
Since that victory, the Legion's Dominican colonels and generals have been drilling 150 Nicaraguan youths on Figueres' Rio Conejo farm, just outside San José. For Figueres (who knows that Costa Rican counter-revolutionaries are also drilling on Tacho's side of the border), the situation has been a little embarrassing. The Caribbean Legion and its friends have been looking for a way to get on with their business without leaving Figueres on the spot...
...Harried by competition from brisk, unscheduled Trans Caribbean Airways, Pan Am last week made one of the industry's steepest cuts. To lure passengers on its Puerto Rican run it instituted a "coach" service. By ripping out the galley and some baggage racks, it now puts 63 (v. 52) passengers into its DC-4 planes, has cut the one-way fare from $133 to $75 (plus...
...Nashua, where one-fourth of the working force was employed by Textron, Roy Little's Puerto Rican deal looked like a death sentence. Cried a local labor leader: "A disaster for the entire community." A textile man was just as sore. "It is ridiculous," said he, "to demand that labor act with responsibility while capital takes an irresponsible attitude...