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Operation Bootstrap
San Juan, Puerto Rico
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Tax exemption pulled American manufacturers to the island and moved a farming economy into factories inside a generation. Incomes rose sharply and so did emigration: something close to half a million people left for the mainland in the 1950s alone, most of them to New York.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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