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...Victor improvements (flat disc record, greater fidelity) on Thomas Edison's invention financed archeological jaunts to Easter Island, Guatemala, a sounding of the Puerto Rico Deep in a $1,500,000 yacht, and a $1,000,000 University of Pennsylvania medical research foundation...
From Europe have come 57 students, many of whom have declared intention of making their permanent homes here. This number includes ten from Nazi Germany, two from Falangist Spain, and one from Soviet Russia. The Philippine Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Canal Zone, which are United States territories, have sent four students; the British South American and Caribbean possessions are also the homes of four...
Economically, producing sugar is a terrible risk: it requires big capital investment and reaps a microscopic profit margin. This has led to cutthroat competition between the domestic beet bloc and the cane producers in Cuba, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. To protect themselves, the beet men for 25 years operated an intense and effective lobby to get Congress to erect tariff walls and pay subsidies. In 1934 they jammed through a quota system that gave them 25% of the 6,000,000 tons of sugar consumed in the U.S. One of their most cogent arguments for protection: a strong...
Further auto ferry routes will be opened later, between Cuba and Haiti (fare: $40 a car), and between the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico ($30 a car). Also a Cuba-Jamaica line is under consideration...
...Open negotiations to buy Cuba's and Puerto Rico's 1946 crops at once. (Reluctantly the U.S. has raised the price of raw Cuban sugar from 2.65? a lb. to 3.1? and probably will have to go higher, but it is just as important to make the contract before planting instead of just before the harvest, as has been done...