Word: teodoro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bold Face. In Stockton, Calif., Teodoro Lopez Herrera held up a bank, was asked by the cashier to sign his name for the money he took, dutifully obeyed, was soon tracked down and arrested...
...TEODORO MOSCOSO Administrator...
...factories going, Muñoz tapped a young pharmacist (University of Michigan '32) named Teodoro Moscoso Jr., who left a job running his family's wholesale drug business in Ponce to form and boss Fomento. The program's principle, as summed up by Moscoso: "Economic development is not an end but a means of attacking poverty." It avoided political doctrines; Muñoz early ruled that Fomento should "have no fixed taboos, no sacred cows in the choice of instruments to achieve a better standard of living...
...Startling and still unexplained success has been achieved with iproniazid against angina pectoris, the recurrent pain that afflicts many victims of coronary artery disease. Mexico City's Dr. Teodoro Cesarman was most enthusiastic, reported complete relief after one to three weeks' treatment in 62 cases. One man, incapacitated for eight years, who had taken up to 20 tablets of nitroglycerin a day, lost his pain, began climbing stairs, and walked a mile without distress. U.S. and Swiss specialists reported good though less dramatic results...
PUERTO Rico, whose strikingly successful Operation Bootstrap has sparked a productive industrial economy that in ten years has brought in 500 new industries, created 80,000 jobs, boosted per capita income from $264 to $369. Puerto Rico's Economic Development Administrator Teodoro Moscoso emphasized that the "key" to his country's swift rise was the original decision to use government funds only to create an environment in which private industry could flourish. Said he: "What is transforming Puerto Rico is not the money but the dynamic productive forces of the U.S. industrial concerns which made the investment decisions...