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Word: rico (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Asked Congress to amend the organic act of Puerto Rico to permit that impoverished island to elect its own Governor, revealed that he had set up an advisory committee of eight-four Americans, four Puerto Ricans. Head of the committee: Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, for whom Under Secretary Abe Fortas will serve. Best-known Puerto Rican on the committee: the famed leader of the Popular Democratic Party, cavalry-mustached Luis Muñoz Marin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spotlight | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

When Yank is full grown it will be published in New York, London, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Alaska, and Cairo. Already it is printed in the first three of these places. The main offices will remain in New York City where they now are, and mats of the pages will be flown especially to the chain branches. There the weekly will be run off by civilian letter press and distributed easily to the armed forces overseas as soon as the men at home receive...

Author: By J. ROBERT Moskin, | Title: 'Yank' Glorifies Army's Average Enlistees; Published Here and Abroad by Noncoms | 3/12/1943 | See Source »

When Yank is full grown it will be published in New York, London Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Alaska, and Cairo. Already it is printed in the first three of these places. The main offices will remain in New York City where they now are, and mats of the pages will be flown especially to the chain branches. There the weekly will be run off by civilian letter press and distributed easily to the armed forces overseas as soon as the men at home receive...

Author: By J. ROBERT Moskin, | Title: 'Yank' Glorifies Army's Average Enlistees, Published Here and Abroad by Noncoms | 3/10/1943 | See Source »

...came to the U.S. from Russia 40-odd years ago and began turning out his own cigars in the window of a little street shop in Brooklyn. His formula for a mild, cheap cigar caught on. It bloomed into tobacco plantations in Connecticut, factories in the U.S., Cuba, Puerto Rico-all turning out millions of Garcia Grandes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: If I Was a Violinist . . . | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

Though this sugar was bought outright, the U.S. has not been able to take all of it. Shortage of shipping forced this country to reduce its normal consumption and to enforce rationing. Moreover, sugar has been taken in large quantities from Hawaii and from Puerto Rico, where some U.S. ships have to go anyway, and pampered domestic beet and cane producers turned in a record crop. Hence the U.S. carryover in Cuba now amounts to about 1,700,000 tons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUGAR: Hard Bargain | 2/8/1943 | See Source »

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