Word: rico
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union organized the plantations and mills and conducted a successful 79-day strike. There was a four-month strike in 1958, and today Hawaiian growers pay the highest annual wage scale in the sugar world ($15.63 a day v. $3.80 in Puerto Rico). But there is a compensation: the union cooperates to eliminate unnecessary jobs through early retirement and even repatriation of late-arriving Filipino immigrants. Result: the Hawaiian sugar industry is close to being automated. Only 13,000 production workers are needed to turn out more sugar than 55,000 produced prewar...
ATOMIC REACTOR for Puerto Rico, first in the Caribbean, will be built by AEC and used to train Latin American scientists. The 16,300-kw. boiling-water plant, costing $11 million, is scheduled to start operating near Rincón in three years...
...that required division of a man's land among his heirs and hence prompted French peasants to have fewer heirs; yet in Indonesia, where a similar law exists, the population goes on growing. Both in Japan, where doctors performed a million legal abortions last year, and in Puerto Rico, where women have become so enthusiastic about sterilization that it is known simply as "la operation," the slowdown in population increase is often attributed to a rising level of education and economic wellbeing. But to the confusion of the experts came the unforeseen baby boom in the postwar...
...birth control, how are the poor nations to cope with the millions who lack enough food or adequate housing? The familiar answer used to be emigration. The 50,000 Puerto Ricans who migrate to the U.S. each year have helped to ease the strain on Puerto Rico's economy, and the 400,000 Algerians working in France contribute heavily to the meager living standards of the people back home. But racial barriers exclude a mass movement out of Asia. Besides, to keep Asia's population stable would require the emigration of 25 million people a year...
...solve the canal question by offering to annex Panama to the U.S.? Panama is already thoroughly gringoized. Offer Panama commonwealth status, its inhabitants American citizenship, its industry the American market. In time, along with Puerto Rico, it might be made a state. The two working together could preserve their Spanish heritage...