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...letter from Irving Joel of that company tells what happened next: "The magazine first appeared on the newsstands, to the best of my knowledge, on Thursday. The following Monday we had a cablegram from Zurich, Switzerland. And since that time we have received requests for information from Alaska, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, The Hague, Holland, Hong Kong, China and Canada. In addition to this foreign response, we have received well over 200 inquiries from both individuals and stores in this country, and they're still coming...
...Rickenbacker is concerned, the present Comet is too small. Nor does he want the faster 44-passenger Comet II, scheduled for limited production next year, although he is willing to buy a couple to test on the New York-Puerto Rico run. Rickenbacker wanted De Havilland to jump ahead to the 60-to-75-passenger Comet III, whose prototype has not yet even been built. Said Rickenbacker: "If I were an Englishman, I would work day and night-including weekends-to keep the advantage they have." De Havilland's reply: it cannot boost commercial production and meet its rearmament...
...precise pronunciation of Romani may have stopped reverberating in the Stockyards Amphitheatre, but the troubles that called it forth are still rattling about Republican circles in Puerto Rico. The dispute, as important in principle if not votes as any of the larger contests aired at the GOP convention, has simply shifted from the convention floor, where viewers glimpsed it only during the ludicrous moments when the threeman delegation was polled, to the National Committee, where Eisenhower enthusiasts in Puerto Rico have filed suit to oust the pro-Taft National Committeeman and woman...
...Lidia Serpa, 25, startled the captain, two copilots, stewardess, purser and 51 passengers (including herself) of a Pan American plane flying between Puerto Rico and New York by giving birth to a 6-lb. girl 8,000 ft. over the Atlantic Ocean...
...developed a quick defensive reflex: the minute prices weaken, the growers cut production. This year, a record world sugar output of 44.4 million tons is expected to top demand by 2,500,000 tons. Faced with the prospect of falling prices, such big sugar producers as Cuba and Puerto Rico are planning a slash of 20% to 30% in their 1953 output...