Word: rico
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...might be equally strong. Here, all the bases sought by the Navy are already established, either on U.S. territory or on sites acquired in the 1940 destroyers-for-bases deal with Britain. Outstanding among them is the great naval operating base at Roosevelt Roads in eastern Puerto Rico, which could not be finished in time for the Battle of the Atlantic, now to be left to the caretakers, ready for quick use in an emergency...
Married. Gloria Chavez, 20, younger daughter of New Mexico's Democratic Senator Dennis Chavez, and a George Washington University undergraduate (fellow student Margaret Truman was a bridesmaid); and Navy Lieut, (j.g.) Jorge Enrique Tristani, 26, U.S.-trained radar expert from Puerto Rico; in Washington...
SERVICEMEN'S NAMES WITHHELD Puerto Rico...
...mindful of sugar production in Hawaii, Puerto Rico-and the potent domestic sugar beet lobby-has balked at giving Cuba a good break. The U.S., too, has a point. It insists that Cuba not capitalize on the war, that its quota remain fixed at the prewar...
...went well with this venture, Williams planned to make even more of the tropical Caribbean available to ambitious American motorists by ferrying carloads of them to Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, and Mexico. It was a good idea. Here is what happened...