Word: brasilia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Polly, who modestly estimates that the project would cost $190 million, wants to model the new capital-to be called Brasilia-after Washington, D.C. For scoffers, the General has two reminders : 1) 41 years ago Brazilian dreamers planned the model city which is today the lively, bustling reality of Bello Horizonte; 2) Golánia, the model capital of the state of Goiaz, was only a gleam in a city planner's eye five years...