Word: rican
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Textileman Little the deal offered by the Puerto Rican government looked too good to turn down. Hot after new industries, Puerto Rico will build him six plants for $6,000,000, sell them to his Puerto Rican subsidiary for $500,000 down and let him pay off the rest out of profits, tax free for twelve years. Another incentive was Puerto Rican labor at 25? to 75? an hour as against $.90 to $1.30 in Nashua...
Once a fiery advocate of Puerto Rican independence, Munoz now believes that both independence and statehood are best forgotten while the island builds up its economic health. His platform: industrialization, expansion of the social legislation which he wrote in the days before Governor Rexford G. Tugwell* arrived, a new Pureto Rican constitution by revision or replacement of the present Organic Act-to provide that no changes shall be made in Puerto Rico's governmental system without consulting the islanders...
...Knees. Even if all Munoz' strength lay in his beloved jibaros, most Puerto Rican politicos concede that he would win. But his magic also works with some middle-class intellectuals, and with the slumdwellers of San Juan's malodorous El Fanguito (TIME...
...been robbed of the presidency (TIME, Aug. 16), Panama's President Enrique A. Jimenez was worried. He rushed troops to the northern border, and asked Neighbor Jose Figueres not to let Arnulfo use Costa Rica as a base for an armed comeback. Figueres promised. Last week, the Costa Rican government gave Arnulfo 24 hours to get out of the country...
...faces. Most televiewers lost the thread of Senator Wherry's address, because of the woman in the background who blandly read a newspaper. Other strikingly human glimpses: a girl delegate smothering a yawn behind her compact during a dull speech; the grave face of a Puerto Rican delegate; a wide-eyed little boy in the gallery...