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BACKGROUND
8. FORD
30
It began S
ome
years ago in the noble mind of Luis Munoz Marin
second
in Washington DO. where his father was the first official delegate of
Rico
Puerto 1
to the US Congress An aristocrat, dis gainful of money and
pogsesged of a strong eense of noblesse oblige, a Mation
contributor,
a
Munoz who usa
a Greenwich Willige bohemian and poet, appailed by the island's poverty,
preming
knew what had to be done. A magnificent thinker and speaker he came to power
and with the help of Rexford Tugwell, the US-
going
appointed Governor of the island, also a thorough, liberal
and tas Men Due in Washing tin
Ráco
klmssra
ingtalled in Puerto
model
liberal
society.
Agrigulture, which moant virtual peonage to the latifundista of the
day was disdained for industrialism, a - wage system that gave a man
dignity, allowed him to
join a union, also
encouraged and
That
protectad by the government.
-
Puerto
Rico lacked raw materials, a market, an industrial infrastructure, skilled
hus
(caught by the vision
and a brilliant crew of young Puerto Ricans also
workers was not insuperablex
Munoz improvised brilliantly
and ingeniously to compensate for the island's inherent disadvantages:
tax incentives, wage in entives, worker training courses 2/2
a constantly
escalating mix.
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