Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cranston Jones, who inherited White's 9 o'clock tutoring appointment in Rio, had been in Brazil only two weeks when he had to go to Belém, near the mouth of the Amazon, to cover a plane-crash story. Late one evening, he found himself lost in the town, and worse, he could not remember the name of his hotel. The people on the sidewalk spoke no French or English; he had not yet learned Portuguese. "Finally," says Jones, "a padre shouldered his way through the crowd and asked me if I spoke Latin. I went...
President Chamoun was aware that there are 250,000 Lebanese in Brazil. Smaller than Connecticut, the republic at the eastern end of the Mediterranean is so densely populated (1,250,000) that a nearly equal number have moved out and now live abroad. Some 500,000 are in the U.S., many in Brooklyn. Explained a Foreign Office official in Beirut: "Our people have been traders since the dawn of history, and they can sniff a business opportunity a long way off." Some Lebanese opportunity-sniffers in Brazil have been strikingly successful...
Notable example: the textile-and-banking Jafets. currently headed by Vargas-Backer Ricardo Jafet. But many a Lebanese in Brazil is simply a backhands pots-and-pans trader. Of such, Brazilians are currently singing a popular samba : Hallah, hallah, hallah, Have pity on Abdallah; Up and down the hills he trots, Carrying his sample...
Pants in the Ants. In Journey to the Far Amazon, Explorer Alain Gheerbrant tells how, with one Colombian and two Frenchmen, he plunged into the "green hell" of the Sierra Parima between Venezuela and Brazil. That vast sea of vegetation, never before crossed by a white man, was filled with reptiles, insects and maiir eating fish, all unfriendly. One night in a grotto a scraping noise awakened Gheerbrant. It was an advancing column, 16 inches wide, of red ants. They had already devoured his belt, half his trousers and were starting on his leather camera case...
...Brazil's Bonanza. While France has been helped by a good crop year, Brazil has profited from crop failures. The coffee and cocoa price boom, plus tight restrictions on imports, has changed Brazil from a debtor nation nine months ago to one that has a trade surplus of almost $370 million. Cocoa prices went up 112% after the failure of the African crop. Though frost cut Brazil's coffee exports 15%, prices went up 50%. Net additional profit to Brazil: $165 million...