Word: rico
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were other sparks flying to indicate what shape U.S. policy was gradually taking on the anvil of events. In Congress, a bill was introduced to give Puerto Rico-which has long demanded independence-the choice of three alternatives: independence, statehood or a new wrinkle, dominion status. And at a White House conference with Philippine President Sergio Osmena, an interested conferee was Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal, who has repeatedly said the U.S. must keep some of the Pacific bases which its Navy...
...Army for 35 years, Lt. Col. Tuttle served as professor of military science and tactics at the University of Puerto Rico, Syracuse University, the University of Akron, and other schools...
Many foreigners confuse Costa Rica with Puerto Rico. This does not bother the Costa Ricans so much as the more common failure to distinguish between their peaceful republic and the rest of Central America-which last week continued to tremble with political earthquake shocks. Costa Rica, they insist, is a very different cornucopia of good things...
Although the graduates represented some 30 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, over 20 are residents of New England, with the majority of these coming from Massachusetts...
...purchase of small distillers. (The report did not note that the little companies often willingly took this golden opportunity to get a war-high price for their businesses.) The subcommittee also cited, as evidence of a trend to monopoly, the Big Four-owned distilleries in Cuba and Puerto Rico...