Excerpt from Census of Business, 1949: Puerto Rico; Retail, Wholesale, and Service Trades Wholesalers primarily engaged in wholesale distribution of a general or specialized line of groceries and food specialties including dry groceries, processed foods, flour, . Sugar, coffee, tea, spices, confectionery, fish and sea foods, and meat products. Merchant wholesalers engaged in wholesale distribution of soft drinks bottling and distributing natural and mineral spring waters are included. Establishments primarily engaged in bottling soft drinks are classified as manufacturers and are not to be included in this trade. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.