Word: rico
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...medical science is cautious-there was still a remote chance that glycol might accumulate harmfully in the erect human lungs which, unlike those of mice, do not drain themselves. So last June Dr. Robertson began studying the effect of glycol vapor on monkeys imported from the University of Puerto Rico's School of Tropical Medicine. So far, after many months' exposure to the vapor, the monkeys are happy and fatter than ever. Dr. Robertson does not expect mankind to live, like his monkeys, continuously in an atmosphere of glycol vapor; but it should be most valuable in such...
...Puerto Rico white children suffer less from tooth decay than white children...
...save the lives of men under 20, but it will not necessarily work that way: 1) Army death rate in the U.S. is 2.15 per thousand, but in Bermuda it is only half that, in Iceland only 1.62; 2) an 18-year-old could not go to Puerto Rico where the principal hazard is sunburn, but with only one day in the Army he could go into action against Japs in Alaska...
Plenty & Starvation. U.S. food exports to Latin America and the West Indies in 1939 totaled $50 million; now they are negligible. Argentina and Brazil are suffering because they cannot export crops, yet vast regions of the South American west coast and Panama, Trinidad, Puerto Rico are near starvation. Puerto Rico needs a minimum 110,000 tons of shipping a month to bring in supplies, is getting only 30,000 tons...
...routes. Lowell Yerex of Central American flying fame asked for two routes each for his TACA and British West Indian Airways. KLM Royal Dutch Air Lines asked a route to the Dutch West Indies. The other three surviving new applicants are Florida-born National Airlines; Aerovias Nacionales Puerto Rico; and Cuba's new Expreso Aero Inter-Americano. Meanwhile Pan American's own belligerent half-subsidiary Panagra (TIME, March 16) still has an application pending for a terminus in Miami, Tampa or New Orleans...