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Even when the ships sailed regularly to Puerto Rico, bringing in the rice, beans and salt cod (staples of the natives' diets) and taking away the sugar, rum, tobacco and coffee (cash crops that pay the natives' paltry wages), there was hunger and destitution on this lush, mountainous, crowded island-stepchild of the U.S. economy. Now that German subs lurk in the Caribbean and ships are needed elsewhere for war, famine might cease to be a threat, become a grim reality...
...transportation route which makes use of schooners between the islands. But even some of the schooners, which can make the runs between the islands in daylight, had been machine-gunned by subs. And AMA had made fantastic and grievous mistakes: it sent 3,000 bags of sugar to Puerto Rico (where 400,000 tons are awaiting export); it ordered private exporters to move all flour from gulf ports, then set up its own flour stockpiles in the same ports...
...medical science is cautious-there was still a remote chance that glycol might accumulate harmfully in the erect human lungs which, unlike those of mice, do not drain themselves. So last June Dr. Robertson began studying the effect of glycol vapor on monkeys imported from the University of Puerto Rico's School of Tropical Medicine. So far, after many months' exposure to the vapor, the monkeys are happy and fatter than ever. Dr. Robertson does not expect mankind to live, like his monkeys, continuously in an atmosphere of glycol vapor; but it should be most valuable in such...
...Puerto Rico white children suffer less from tooth decay than white children...
...save the lives of men under 20, but it will not necessarily work that way: 1) Army death rate in the U.S. is 2.15 per thousand, but in Bermuda it is only half that, in Iceland only 1.62; 2) an 18-year-old could not go to Puerto Rico where the principal hazard is sunburn, but with only one day in the Army he could go into action against Japs in Alaska...