Word: rico
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Utuado, Puerto Rico, Sefiora Carmen Lopez bore triplets: on Monday a girl, on Tuesday another girl, on Wednesday...
Vinceute A. Rodrigues '41, Guanica, Puerto Rico.; Walter F. Rogers Jr. '43 Jacksonville, Fla.; Edward I. Rothschild '42, Winnetka, Ill.; Hermann G. Rudenberg '41, Belmonet Mass.; Allan M. Sachs '42, New York, N.Y.; Robert C.C. St. George Jr. '43, Brooklyn...
...Martinique, the significance of that move caused some good guesses (see p. 35). Five destroyers and a seaplane tender slipped out of Key West; three others, attended by eleven seaplanes, followed them. At the same time 1,200 Air Corps officers and men arrived at San Juan, Puerto Rico, with a squadron of naval patrol planes. Diplomatically, Secretary Hull called attention to the presence of this fleet near Martinique by announcing that these were merely routine Navy maneuvers...
...Martinique are some no U. S.-made warplanes, aboard the French aircraft carrier Beam. Besides the eight destroyers of the U. S. patrol flotilla, several cruisers of the recently reorganized Atlantic Squadron are on a training cruise to the Guantanamo Naval Station in Cuba. At San Juan, Puerto Rico, are 12,000 officers and men of the Navy Air Corps. If the problem of Martinique had to be settled, the U. S. was well prepared...
First of all, the conceded area had been explored extensively by big British and U. S. firms long ago, and though it was only 60 miles from the rich Poza Rico fields, had been rejected as not worth bothering about. Furthermore, it was reported that the lease was signed by Modesto C. Rolland, who is sub-secretary of the Ministry of Economy, who was president and is still thought to be an officer of Mexicana Veracruzana. But the shocker was that Cia. Mexicana Veracruzana was found to be controlled by La Laguna Co., which is owned by Pacific Petroleum...