Word: bahia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brazil's inflation-harried, dollar-starved government heard good news last week from the jungle interior. Near the spot where the Madeira River flows into the Amazon, oil hunters brought in a high-grade gusher, the first oil ever found in Brazil outside the coastal state of Bahia. The oil spurted 150 feet, and made Brazilians gush just as effusively. Said Rio's Correio da Manhá: "Glad tidings! The greatest hope for Brazil's recovery...
Boarding the naval transport Les Eclaireurs one day last month, Argentine Minister of Marine Anibal O. Olivieri slipped out of the port of Bahia Blanca, bound for a quiet inspection of his country's Antarctic bases. The Buenos Aires em bassy of Great Britain, which has long claimed the area in which the Argentines have been setting up bases, was not caught napping. Les Eclaireurs was soon joined by Her Majesty's frigate St. Austell Bay, off Deception Island, 600 miles south of Cape Horn. Signaled St. Austell Bay to Les Eclaireurs'. "To the Argentine Naval Minister...
...moments later, Vargas said to Lewis: "You look exactly like your pictures and cartoons." Replied Lewis: "Well, you look just like your pictures. I'd know you anywhere." The exchange ended when Vargas added, "They tell me you like cigars, too," and handed Lewis a long, expensive Bahia Charuto...
...Philippines), but there was mathematical logic to them. Spain, with a Catholic population of 28 million-slightly less than the U.S.-had only two cardinals before this year, as compared with four in the U.S. Brazil, which now has three cardinals (Rio, São Paulo and Bahia), claims a Catholic population of 53 million...
...imports $270 million worth of petroleum a year, equal to 14% of the country's total expenditures for commodities from abroad. Some oilmen think that Brazil has perhaps a sixth of the world's undeveloped oil reserves. But when Vargas, on a recent visit to the Bahia oilfield, plunged his fingers into Brazilian oil, and held them up for his followers to applaud (see cut), Brazil's production was still a mere trickle of 85,000 barrels a day. Congress, taking its cue from the President, is doing its nationalist best to delay the day when Brazil...