Word: rico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cent per lb. Net result was a closed system (taking in the U.S., its insular possessions and Cuba), in which AAA could dictate supply, if not demand. Western sugar beet growers received a fat quota and benefit payment from a processing tax; duty-free producers in Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Philippines got higher prices which partly compensated for the reduced tariff advantages; and Cuba, assured of an outlet for about 70% of its sugar at profitable prices, was rescued from total economic collapse. Meantime the price of sugar in the consumer's bowl has risen about...
...After an informal dinner for 70, at which Senator Russell of Georgia and Governor Blanton Winship of Puerto Rico (also a Georgian) were guests, the President and his guests sat down to one of the movie shows which constitute frequent White House entertainment. It began with a newsreel. Suddenly a tousled man flashed on the screen. "The trouble with the people in Washington is that they have had common sense educated out of them," he cried. Senator Russell and Governor Winship began to laugh. Franklin Roosevelt let out a hearty roar: that Georgia's recalcitrant Governor Talmadge should tear...
...second report (two sentences) told of the party's being joined at Lobos Cay by Son James Roosevelt who flew from Puerto Rico. His third report (three sentences) admitted arrival off Great Inagua Island, 500 miles at sea. His fourth report, equally brief, described swimming from the shore, the safe arrival of two seaplanesful of official mail when the Nourmahal touched at Crooked Island...
...recognition for which he had vainly waited half a century. Lieut. Greely returned from the Arctic to find a civilian upped to the captaincy which he had expected. Quietly plugging ahead, he distinguished himself by laying thousands of miles of telegraph and cable wire in the Philippines, China, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Alaska, directing Army relief work in San Francisco after the earthquake of 1906. He had risen to a major-generalcy when he was retired...
...Complaining that recently built cane sugar refineries in Hawaii, Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines had cut down his volume of business, Chairman Earl D. Babst of American Sugar Refining Co. reported 1934 earnings of $4,877,000, slightly less than in 1933. Just after the close of its fiscal year American Sugar Refining had called in $1,515,000 in bonds due in 1937, completing in 13 years the redemption of $30,000,000 in bonds issued...