Word: ricans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impact of the strike was felt at the other end too. Puerto Rican industry, cut off from mainland suppliers, began to feel raw-materials shortages. The government of Pakistan waited impatiently for 100,000 tons of surplus U.S. wheat marooned in Gulf Coast ports. In West Germany 78,000 Volkswagen workers got an unwelcome two-day vacation from their assembly lines because the German auto company had 10,000 vehicles stranded in U.S. ports and another 5,300 waiting shipment on piers in Bremen and Hamburg...
...plants as well. By bringing in outside experts and training local workers in modern techniques, the Ferrés had all the plants in the black within a year. Today, wages in the Ferré plants run from $1.60 to $2.04 an hour, almost double the average for Puerto Rican industry...
...Commonwealth of Puerto Rico but from the 51st state of the U.S. Statehood for Puerto Rico would more than double the corporate tax bill that the Ferrés pay under the Commonwealth, but they argue that it would attract many new industries and set off a new Puerto Rican boom by removing any danger that the island may some day be caught up in Caribbean turmoil. Says Luis Ferré: "If you can sell twice as much because of expanded markets, taxes are not an important consideration...
...Sheep Stealing." Part of Pentecostal's appeal-particularly to migrants-is this total, emotional participation. One Puerto Rican described the U.S. Catholic Church he rejected as "like a supermarket-cold and formal." Says Presbyterian Rafael Martinez of Chicago's interdenominational Casa Central: "When you walk into a Pentecostal service, you are likely to be asked, no matter who you are, your name, where you are from, and 'Brother, do you have a word...
...mission for what missionaries call "sheep stealing." Their lack of community involvement is also resented. Says John Hobgood of the Chicago Commission on Human Relations: "These Pentecostal churches are, by and large, an unintelligent operation in the sense that they usually don't encourage or equip the Puerto Rican to function in the larger community in which he must live." Rejecting the social gospel, Pentecostals concentrate instead on a puritanical personal morality. Members shun cigarettes and whisky; women wear no makeup...