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Although the graduates represented some 30 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, over 20 are residents of New England, with the majority of these coming from Massachusetts...
...purchase of small distillers. (The report did not note that the little companies often willingly took this golden opportunity to get a war-high price for their businesses.) The subcommittee also cited, as evidence of a trend to monopoly, the Big Four-owned distilleries in Cuba and Puerto Rico...
...Quakers alone now have 13 work camps in the U.S., three in Mexico, one in Puerto Rico. Colleges from Pennsylvania's Swarthmore to Kansas' Wichita give credits for theses based on camp projects, hashed out in camp seminars staffed with college teachers. The eight-week sessions cost the student $100 (but scholarships are available). Their Quaker sponsors expect to find plenty of work in postwar Europe for work-camp alumni...
Meanwhile the Brethren are sending their cattle where they can. The committee chose Puerto Rico for the first shipment because there is a serious milk shortage on the island (40% of Puerto Ricans get no milk). The heifers, donated by farmer Brethren, are worth $200 to $300 apiece. The only cost to the Puerto Rican farmers who get them will be freight charges, totaling about...
...Puerto Rico's Governor Rexford Guy Tugwell, once (1938) chairman of the New York City Planning Commission. Tugwell specializes in "the kind of watercolor planning which consists of splashing green paint at a map and labeling the resulting blobs as 'open areas,' 'green belts,' 'breathing spaces...