Word: rico
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Draftables in U. S. territories (Alaska, Hawaii, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, etc.) will register later, on a date yet to be chosen...
...states of the United States are represented among the new men, excepting Nevada, South Carolina, Mississippi, Utah, South Dakota, and Wyoming. The students also come from England, France, Norway, Mexico, Argentina, Japan, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Canal Zone, Bermuda, and Hawaii...
That the U. S. would immediately attempt such major development of its new sites was doubtful; it is already expanding its facilities at Guantanamo, Puerto Rico and the defensive centre of all Caribbean strategy-the Panama Canal. Only three of the new bases (Newfoundland, Bermuda, Trinidad) would lend themselves to development as even secondary fleet bases. But along its new defense line the U. S. can well place docks, tenders, other facilities for destroyers, submarines, patrol planes and protected anchorages for capital ships. President Roosevelt has in hand $200,000,000 of blank-check naval appropriations to spend...
Chairman Vinson got his figures from Rear Admiral Ben Moreell, chief of the Navy's Bureau of Yards and Docks, who added up the total cost of the projects (in Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico), found they came to $26,859,081. Robert & Co.'s cut in that, for "engineering and architectural services," was close to 3½%. Representatives Beverly Vincent of Kentucky, Colgate Darden of Virginia both wondered out loud whether the secretary of the Democratic National Committee should have let his firm bid on Government contracts. Said Mr. Darden: "It doesn't look good...
Month ago Pan Am put its fast new Boeing Stratoliners (land planes) on the over-water flight from Miami to Belem, Brazil, abandoning the overnight stop at Trinidad, resting overnight only at San Juan, Puerto Rico. Next week Douglas DC-35 will take over from Belem, fly 1,530 miles across country to Rio in nine hours, pausing briefly halfway at the new forest-shrouded airport at Barreiras. Abandoned will be the old two-day, 2,525-mile route along the seacoast with its overnight stop at Recife...