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That was why, when Bouças was in the U.S. last January, Brazil's Finance Minister Correia e Castro cabled him so urgently. The Government wanted 50,000 trucks, wanted them fast, and had the dollars to pay for them. In bettered transport it saw a way of moving food from farm to market, and thus of hitting inflation and the black market. The Communists were making hay out of skyrocketing food prices, and the Government was worried...
...buying agent for one of the biggest commercial truck deals in automotive history ($100 million for 53,000 trucks) is stocky, tanned Valentim Bouças (pronounced Bo-sas), International Business Machines' vice president in Brazil. He has made a fortune for himself and I.B.M. as a supersalesman and for years he has been an unofficial economic adviser to Brazilian Governments. Few businessmen have as many good contacts in Brazil...
...Bouças went to work. The State Department's Will Clayton set up meetings with Detroit big shots, who promised to supply the trucks. Steamship Tycoon Albert Moore (Moore-McCormack) agreed to deliver the trucks if Brazil could promise "no waiting" at its snafued docks (TIME, April 7). President Dutra gave his word. Last week's delivery was the payoff...
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