Word: rico
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Having been born in Puerto Rico and lived there all my life except for the period of my education in the U.S. I think I am qualified to refute your reporter's sweeping, malicious description...
...description of Puerto Rico as a "jungled, swampish, feverish, rum-ridden, slum-ridden 'paradise,' " issue of June 15, has shaken my faith in TIME...
There are no jungles in Puerto Rico, unfortunately. The Federal Government has been spending thousands of dollars trying to reforest the island. One of the few virgin forests has been made a national reservation to preserve...
Northbound, the sailing vessels will nibble away at the 4,000,000 tons of sugar awaiting shipment in Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, the 330,000 tons of Colombian and Central American coffee normally imported each year by the U.S. At transfer terminals in the Lesser Antilles they may even pick up cargoes brought by convoy from Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina, cutting the convoy voyage by as much as half...
...south, airline-operated cargo planes have toted thousands of pounds of U.S. currency (for payrolls) to Panama and Puerto Rico; tons & tons of blood plasma, surgical instruments, other medical supplies to Trinidad, Virgin Islands, other U.S. military bases in the Caribbean...