Word: rico
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nearly 50 years under U.S. control, Puerto Rico has elected all its own legislators. Last week, when President Truman signed a bill passed by the 80th Congress, Puerto Rico also got the right to elect its own governor, heretofore appointed by the White House. Nov. 2, 1948, general election day in the U.S., was the date set for the island's first gubernatorial election...
...Puerto Rico's sugar economy cannot support a population (2,045,000 in 1946) which has more than doubled since the U.S. took the island as a dependency after the Spanish-American War. About one in eight employable Puerto Ricans has no job. The average family wage: $20 a month (about one-third of minimum needs by Puerto Rican standards...
Some of Puerto Rico's economic D.P.s have already gone back to their land, discouraged by what they find in the U.S. But the great majority hold on; bad as Harlem is, it is better than life in Puerto Rico. Hundreds of the migrants save enough in a year to make bargain-rate flights back to San Juan, only to return to New York with their relatives...
...Puerto Rico's home government, which knows that migration is the best and easiest solution to the island's unemployment, hopes that somebody will work out a plan to channel the migrants to U.S. farm and industrial areas. Any diversion of the flood would take a lot of doing; the Puerto Rican in New York or San Juan is subject to no more restrictions or compulsions than any other U.S. citizen...
...talkers were young Cubans out for adventure and a chance to strike at dictatorship. Some may have been Communists; some were Communism's most ardent enemies. But there were also Dominicans. For weeks Dominican exiles had been trickling into Havana, by plane and boat from the U.S., Puerto Rico, Venezuela and Guatemala. Something was up, and that something was a filibuster in the romantic Caribbean's best tradition...