Word: rico
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sugar-beet crop is expected to be bumper; more sugar has been imported from Hawaii than was thought possible; huge crops are also available in Cuba and Puerto Rico. Sugar men are having trouble storing extra sugar. Surpluses are stacked up out of doors, in vacant lots, under canvas, in danger of ruin. A large Gulf Coast refinery had to refuse a sugar shipment for lack of storage space. Sales for household canning have fallen below expectations -housewives loathe the red tape involved...
...totaled 1,200,000 tons. Domestic cane and beet output runs over 2,000,000 tons a year. Each week, even now, from 60-70,000 tons are imported. Besides, Cuba is nervously holding 3,000,000-plus tons only 200 miles from Florida and the waiting railroads; Puerto Rico has up to 1,000,000 tons more. Normal U.S. consumption, meantime, runs only 6,800,000 tons annually, v. only 5,500,000 tons allowed under present sugar rationing...
...certain re-election in 1940 to return to St. Louis at the Democratic machine's urgent bidding. The machine needed a man to be circuit attorney. Last fall Tom Hennings eased into the Navy, went on active duty as a lieutenant commander. He was assigned to Puerto Rico as naval aide to crisp-curled Rexford Guy Tugwell, the original brain-truster, who is now Governor of that jungled, swampish, feverish, rum-ridden, slum-ridden island "paradise...
...such an agreement with Admiral Robert-but it was pre-Laval. Now the U.S. asked Robert to sign on the dotted line all over again. It looked simple-behind Admiral Hoover and Sam Reber stood the massed strength of five nearby U.S. naval bases, strung between Trinidad and Puerto Rico. In Washington this week French Ambassador Gaston Henry-Haye said his Government (i.e., Laval) had not told him to protest...
...attempt a landing in such a choppy sea was a risky business for a plane that was toting a pair of depth charges, beaching gear, and a crew of eight, but Ensign Pinter figured that the plane had burned 300 gallons of gas since it left San Juan, Puerto Rico, was therefore 1,800 Ib. lighter. He decided to try a landing anyhow, and he got away with...