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...Puerto Ricans had also done better than anyone expected. Nine out of ten had found jobs. The percentage of Puerto Ricans on relief, authorities estimated, was now no more than other bottom-of-the-ladder groups, e.g., the Negroes...
Three of the cleaners started sweeping and dusting along the aisles. Wizened, stoop-shouldered Claudio Aguilar, who works on a neighboring farm, went to work on the pulpit. After a while, he stepped down, dragged over a ladder, and climbed to the pulpit's top. He explained later: "It was dark, but I had a feeling that I saw something in the corner. I put out my hand and felt something-I began to tremble." At Claudio's cries of "I see it! I see it!" the others rushed over to find him holding the greenish-black stone...
...cheers of spectators, the three with milkshakes, a store broom, and a ladder proceeded to extinguish the burning awning...
...lynching party stood him up on a box, roped him to a telegraph pole and told him to jump. He refused. They kicked the box out from under him and the rope parted. They grabbed him, put a ladder against the pole, forced him up, strung him up again and yanked the ladder away. George wrapped his arms & legs around the pole and hung on. But George eventually got tired, and the lynching was a success...
...Clifford J. Backstrand, 52, moved in as president of the $112 million Armstrong Cork Co. when 65-year-old Henning Webb Prentis Jr. moved up to chairman of the board. Known as a "driver and organizer," Backstrand drove himself up the Armstrong ladder from student salesman in 1921 to first vice president in 1945, was largely responsible for boosting the company's war production from $500,000 in 1941 to $39 million...