Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sausages & Caskets. In its 15 plants (seven in the U.S., eight in Canada, Scotland, France, Italy, Brazil and Germany), Singer makes 1,500,000 sewing machines a year, also turns out vacuum cleaners, electric fans and irons. Singer makes close to 4,000 different sewers, from a child's model sewing machine (three Ibs.) to a giant industrial machine (2,526 lbs.), designs them to do everything from sewing up sausage casings to finishing casket linings. Latest gadget: a seamer that binds plastics together with an electric current instead of a needle & thread. Most of Singer's output...
Ground Rules. In Vitoria, Brazil, after a pre-game frisking of the 22 players on two rival football teams, police impounded an assortment of 26 knives and revolvers...
...Davis Cup tennis teams from Switzerland, The Netherlands, West Germany, Brazil, the second round of the European Zone finals...
Fast travel over South America's great distances is the toughest part of the staff correspondent's job. Said Rio Bureau Chief Frank White a fortnight ago : "We often hold our story conferences in the back of our Jeepster. Everybody sleeps with a map of Brazil, plus assorted airlines timetables, on his night table." Just back from a 7,000-mile trip up the Amazon Valley, White sometimes covers points in northern Brazil that are closer to the United States than to his home...
White recently had this to say about his assignment: "With its huge untapped frontiers, its booming, get-rich-quick economy, Brazil sometimes gives me the impression I'm reviewing great chapters in U.S. history. It's big, it's challenging...