Word: rico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Matanuska colony of dust-bowl refugees grew, it would open up a frontier where Jewish professional people would be needed and welcome. This was long-range stuff, however, and the Secretary was emphatic on the point that other U. S. territories like the Hawaiian Islands and Puerto Rico were already overpopulated...
Fourteen miles east of Puerto Rico's San Juan harbor is the wooded, 36-acre island of Santiago. There 500 macaques, or rhesus monkeys, landed last week, having voyaged 14,000 miles from India in 51 days. Columbia University intends to establish on Santiago a "free-ranging primate colony." Purpose: research on primate behavior, glands, reproduction and tropical diseases. As from Alcatraz, the only mode of escape from Santiago is by swimming...
Other delegates: Bryn Mawr College's Charles G. Fenwick, top-flight expert on political science; Chief Justice Emilio del Toro Cuevas of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico; President Dan W. Tracy of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers; Miss Kathryn Lewis, who quit Bryn Mawr to help her famed father John L., with U. A. W.; Rev. John F. O'Hara, president of Notre Dame University; Mrs. Elise F. Musser, who had kept herself before South American eyes by paying a flying visit to the continent last year with a group of U. S. women...
Western Union Telegraph Co. last week announced that it might have to fire 3,125 messenger boys. Luther Wallin, of Earle, Ark., prudently closed down his sawmills there and at Columbus, Miss. In low-wage Puerto Rico, employers planned to lay off 120,000 of the island's 420,000 workers, hiking the numbers of unemployed to 350,000. Thus did the nether ends of industry fit themselves last week to the second attempt of the New Deal to put "a floor for wages, a ceiling for hours." Into effect at 12:01 a.m., October 24, went the Federal...
...pressure suddenly take form, airy abysses miles deep into which winds from the high-pressure areas rush from all sides not at 30, 40, 50 m. p. h. but at 75, TOO, even 200 m. p. h. Such an abyss formed late last fortnight northeast of Puerto Rico...