Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time since World War II, Soviet medical scientists last week joined their Western colleagues in discussing the common fight against cancer. At the sixth International Cancer Congress in São Paulo, Brazil, 1,000 cancer researchers from 46 other nations listened attentively as Professor Alexander Savittski of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Science reported that 1) in the Soviet Union, "65% of malignant tumors have been cured"; 2) preventive examinations of the entire population over 35 years of age have resulted in "total elimination" of breast and uterine cancer in certain areas...
...Poor crop reporting in Brazil and other countries caused pessimistic harvest estimates and thereby inflated prices...
...announcement that Brazil's minimum export price would go up from 53? to 87? a lb. on July 1, halted a downward price trend that had begun in April...
...cancer research conference held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Russian scientists announced flatly: "Studies made in Russia [indicate] that there is no relation between tobacco and cancer . . . We do not consider this a problem of importance...
...sense Rubião is killed with kindness. There he is, an average young fellow minding his own business in a little up-country town in Brazil, when all at once a silly old noodle of his acquaintance, a pseudo-philosopher named Quincas Borba, dies and leaves him an immense fortune on the sole condition that he look after a dog, also named Quincas Borba. Rubião exuberantly grabs the money and the dog, goes flying down...