Word: rum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...description of Puerto Rico as a "jungled, swampish, feverish, rum-ridden, slum-ridden 'paradise,' " issue of June 15, has shaken my faith in TIME...
...Rum-ridden, slum-ridden"-a very nice little jingle indeedbut not original. Why pick on slums as a particular characteristic of Puerto Rico when the whole world is "ridden" with them, and even the wealthiest country on this earth...
...rum-ridden," I think the phrase could most certainly have been used to describe the condition of your reporter while there, or wherever he was when he wrote. We export most of our rum...
...brazen a manner; to wit: there are no jungles in Puerto Rico; as to swamps, there are some few hundred acres which are yearly being eliminated by reclamation. Surely we have slums in Borinquén bella, but absolutely not in the proportion your article insinuates. As to rum, let me inform you that more than 85% of our production of rum is guzzled in the States and of the remaining 15% a goodly part is imbibed in Cuba libres by our resident continental fellow citizens. And as to our island being feverish, let me tell you that the only...
This boom has meant one grande fiesta for some 4,250,000 life-loving Cubans. They are guzzling more sweet-tasting rum, screaming at more cock fights, buying more radios and automobiles (when they can get them), using more telephones. The party was pepped up last November when all salaries were boosted 10 to 25% by law (in April minimums were set at $45 a month in towns, $39 out-of-town). The lid almost blew off in January when some 400,000 sugar workers had their wages hiked 50%. Part of these fat raises have since been wiped...