Word: rico
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Longtime Cure. Although Muñoz has refused to talk about his future, friends would be astonished if he had any plans except to finish his term, then run again. No one knows better than Muñoz that Puerto Rico's worst headaches cannot be cured in four years...
Elsewhere the Puerto Rico Housing Authority has 37 housing projects in operation, occupied by 6,140 families. Other projects to be developed in the next two years will provide 8,000 to 10,000 homes. One of the world's biggest private housing projects is under way in the San Juan suburb of Puerto Nuevo, where the Long Construction Co. has finished 3,450 small houses and plans to build 1,400 more...
...desperation, during last year's campaign, some of his opponents even tried the unorthodox (for Puerto Rico) tactic of raking up his private life-Muñoz' first marriage broke up in the late '303, when he fell in love with a former high-school teacher named Inez Maria Mendoza. They have had two children (now 9 and 8), were married two years ago, after Muñoz finally got a divorce. In the election Muñoz got 62% of the total vote...
...paycheck right away." Muñoz has never cared about money, and his present salary ($10,600 a year) is the largest he has ever earned; before his election he was living on his $94 weekly wage as an editor of the daily newspaper Diario de Puerto Rico...
...Luis is sure that the only fundamental cure for his island's troubles is more plants, more jobs and more goods at home. If Puerto Rico can build up industry, and get on top in her battle of production, then a growing population will be an asset instead of a liability. For Muñoz and his people the slogan is still: "Jalda Arriba...