Word: bahia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...victory was all the more impressive because the U.D.N. and Juracy were political also-rans for years. Once Vargas' governor of the important state of Bahia, Juracy broke with the dictator in 1937, helped found the U.D.N. to fight the dictatorship. But in its first campaign, U.D.N.'s candidate was quoted-or misquoted-as saying: "I don't need votes from lunch-pailers." Ever after, U.D.N. was considered a silk-hat, antilabor party...
...portrait of Mme. Cézanne in Red, and Picasso's blue-period Mademoiselle B. (Suzanne Bloch) arrived in the nearby port of Santos, Chatô threw a shipboard champagne party to welcome them. In 1952, when Van Gogh's Schoolboy arrived in the capital city of Bahia, Chatô saw to it that school was let out and the new acquisition greeted by thousands of cheering students. Recently Brazil's President Juscelino Kubitschek turned over the presidential palace to greet another shipment of art, and Brazil's Foreign Minister staged a reception at Itamarati Palace...
...produces 50,000 bbl. of crude oil a day. must import the other three-fourths of the 200,000 bbl. daily consumption at an annual cost of $250 million-roughly equal to the current year's trade deficit. All the oil comes from a single area in Bahia, and Bahia crude is heavy and high in paraffin content, useful mostly for waxes, asphalt and fuel...
...free salary of $100,000, plus the promise of a free hand. He has put together 15 crack geologic field parties, ten gravimeter and 15 seismographic crews, 36 wildcat rigs. But so far he has not found a single economically operable well outside of Bahia, despite the fact that Brazil has some 1,350,000 sq. mi. of potential sedimentary deposits. The big snags are a mile of solid rock beneath the surface in potential oil lands and, above the surface, miles of red tape...
...children. The consequences : damage to the young heart muscle; severe, crippling illness; and in many cases sudden death. In adults the disease is debilitating, persistent and incurable, but is less apt to kill. Estimated number of victims: 4,000,000 in Brazil (pop. 62 million) alone, millions more from Bahia Blanca to the southern border...