Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Venezuela, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, Mexico...
...BRAZIL An Even Billion
...tycoon of São Paulo, of Brazil and probably of all Latin America is Count Francisco Matarazzo Jr., 52. The commercial empire founded by his Italian-born father was already the biggest in Brazil when he inherited it 15 years ago. Since then the count (Italy's Victor Emmanuel bestowed the title in 1917 for charities in Italy) has tripled the empire's possessions. His firm, Industrias Reunidas F. Matarazzo (I.R.F.M.), employs more than 30,000 workers in 367 plants (textiles, foodstuffs, 80-odd other miscellaneous products...
...minded boss of a closed family enterprise, the count himself is the only man who knows, and he is not inclined to say. His consolidated statement for last year indicated that his firm rolled up a gross profit before taxes of 831,864,738 cruzeiros ($43.4 million). Thanks to Brazil's easygoing tax laws, which take only 17½% of dividend returns, Majority Stockholder Matarazzo's income for the year soared high into the millions even on this somewhat sketchy accounting. Yet the count works day & night pyramiding his holdings ever higher. Last week he announced that beginning...
...France, Britain, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, West Germany and Denmark. Next year the U.S., Canada, Cuba, Brazil, Argentina and Australia are expected to join. Last week Japan (with more than 1,000,000 judo athletes) joined the federation and Risei Kano, son of judo's founder, became the new president. *In judo hierarchy, contestants are graded by an intricate system. Novices wear white belts. Then, through about two years' training, the novice judoka progresses through yellow, orange, green, blue and brown belts. From brown to the coveted black takes another year. There are ten grades...