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station that had been recently established in Puerto Rico. Employment opportunities were still difficult, but some jobs were by then being created on the island as a result of Luis Muñoz MarĂn's initiative for Puerto Rico, which joined in the type of social programs that
President Franklin D. Roosevelt had implemented in the United States.
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in May, 1939 with a degree in agronomy. At the time Puerto Rico was still undergoing significant economic hardship, the result of
Hurricane San Felipe in 1928. In June 1939, at the request of Carlos Esteva, then Director of the Tobacco Institute, he had his first official job at an experimental
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Irizarry Rubio was born in MayagĂĽez, Puerto Rico on April 12, 1916. The sixth child of a printer, he started working early in his father's business. He graduated magna cum laude from the
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