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...Puerto Rico's sugar economy cannot support a population (2,045,000 in 1946) which has more than doubled since the U.S. took the island as a dependency after the Spanish-American War. About one in eight employable Puerto Ricans has no job. The average family wage: $20 a month (about one-third of minimum needs by Puerto Rican standards...
Some of Puerto Rico's economic D.P.s have already gone back to their land, discouraged by what they find in the U.S. But the great majority hold on; bad as Harlem is, it is better than life in Puerto Rico. Hundreds of the migrants save enough in a year to make bargain-rate flights back to San Juan, only to return to New York with their relatives...
JAMES H. MCDOWELL JR. San Juan, Puerto Rico...
Hawaii and Puerto Rico. And Hawaii, because of its large Japanese population, would have difficulties. One demagogic Congressman cried: "Do we want a Senator Yamamoto coming to Washington...
Extremist. Architect Niemeyer is a Communist and he works diligently at being a Communist. During last winter's elections, he sold the Communist Tribuna Popular in Rio's streets. It did not raise his stock with conservative President Eu rico Gaspar Dutra. Last week, Dutra was reported to have canceled a contract recently awarded to Niemeyer for a great aeronautical center near Sao Paulo-an air city with hangars, workshops, hospital, stadia, schools and apartments...