Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some Latinos, of course, democracy has more significant meanings. The Uruguayans recently exchanged their President for a committee-style government, akin to the Swiss. Mexicans have given the Indian absolute political equality. Brazil, the land of 50 million whites and Negroes, carries day-by-day racial democracy to a point far beyond anything the U.S. can match...
Under Dictator Getulio Vargas, Brazil was a loyal ally in World War II, providing air bases and sending a 25,000-man unit to fight on the Italian front. Now Vargas is back as Brazil's constitutionally elected President, but his country has held back from joining U.N. forces in Korea. Recently, at a time when a special U.S. mission was in Rio to talk over important development, loans, his administration decreed money-transfer regulations considered irksome to foreign investors. Acheson and his advisers believe it is high time to re-establish personal contacts between Vargas...
...land, in the air and on the spree, it was a week of disasters for Brazil. Twenty miles north of Rio, a truck crammed with 86 southbound migrants missed a curve, plunged into a ravine, killed the driver and seven passengers. At Teresópolis, northeast of Rio, rain-loosened mud and rocks thundered down a hill, burying a freight train, a warehouse and four railhands. A Panair do Brasil DC-3 undershot the Uberlãndia airfield, 500 miles north of Rio, and crashed into a clump of trees, killing nine and injuring 23. But of all the week...
...freely lent money and technical advice to encourage manufacturing, and now buys 80% of its merchandise locally. In Venezuela, where it found few manufacturers geared to its high volume and rigid specifications when it opened its first store two years ago, Sears now buys 30% of its goods. In Brazil, Sears lost money in 1950 but last year Wood said it made a "nice profit." In the whole Latin American operation Sears expects to make $5,000,000 this year...
...Attempted to recruit a "Free Argentina" force in Brazil...