Word: teodoro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jobs. Last week PRIDC, now headed by energetic Teodoro Moscoso Jr., announced that under agreements reached with private firms, 40 new plants were in operation or planned; five other companies were dickering to set up factories. Biggest of the newcomers is Textron Inc., which abruptly closed its Nashua, N.H. plant (TIME, Sept. 27) and is now finishing the first of five factories to manufacture rayon and other textiles in Puerto Rico. Other new plants include Tele-tone (radio tubes and equipment), Crane China, Fashion Rite Gloves...
...individual houses (TIME, Aug. 23), started an $11 million hospital program, raised the percentage of the island's children in school from 49 to 58. But his chief tool for improvement is the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Co. Under the driving management of 38-year-old, Barcelona-born Teodoro ("Teddy") Moscoso Jr., PRIDC is plugging the island's advantages in openhanded tax concessions, cheap (as low as 15?-an-hour minimum) labor, and plentiful, government-owned electric power. Moscoso's salesmanship has already brought 42 new industries-ranging from rayon to radios-from the mainland. Since...
...Costa Rican exiles were so keen on fighting their way home. Wailed ex-President Teodoro Picado, now in Managua on a $300-a-month job as adviser to Nicaragua's Finance Ministry: "I ask only the privilege of returning home in peace. God, all Central America is a madhouse, each man accusing his neighbor...
Well-armed rebels, fighting to give rightist Otilio Ulate the presidency to which he was elected last February, sat high in their southern mountains and beat off clumsy government attacks. In San José, leftist President Teodoro Picado and ex-President Rafael Calderón Guardia, the men who had provoked the war by getting Ulate's election annulled as fraudulent, had found they could not control Comrade Mora; they had wooed him too long and too earnestly. Their police and troops, weakened by losses in the field, were nothing compared to his 1,500 well-disciplined shock troops...
...Commissar. There were many other pieces in the political crazy quilt. In Costa Rica, bumbling President Teodoro Picado had been shoved aside, and Communist Chieftain Manuel Mora was openly bossing the government show from Bella Vista fortress. Shrewd Manuel Mora gave his Communists guns, then held them ready in the capital. Campesinos and other "volunteers" were shipped off to fight the Ulatistas...