Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Corp., and had started new Latin American businesses in partnership with local capital. Another $5,000,000 had gone into such enterprises as Filatures & Tissages Africains, to make textiles in the Belgian Congo for the local market. Sears, Roebuck, which had spent $20 million on new stores in Mexico, Brazil and other countries, last week opened a $2,000,000 store in Caracas...
...lost some of their charms. The women lived freely with the men, changing partners frequently. One girl of 20, called Penicilina, devoted herself exclusively to the oldest profession. Famed through the Gran Sabana, she wore five or six diamond rings, gold nugget necklaces and bracelets. Rum flowed over from Brazil at $30 a bottle. Men got drunk and gambled away $3,000 a night. But even the roughest observed the code: there were no robberies...
...leading U.S. market abroad. The U.S. will probably keep many of its wartime gains. In the Caribbean countries it will continue to dominate trade for the good reason that its business there runs on a two-way street. But in Argentina and Uruguay, and to a lesser extent in Brazil, Chile and Peru, the U.S. will have to reconcile itself to the European trend...
Genial José Gallostra was one of Franco Spain's key diplomatic salesmen in Latin America. Wherever he went-in Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and Mexico-he diligently peddled the doctrine of Hispanidad, the brotherhood of Spanish-speaking people...
...with his father's A. J. Alsdorf Corp., one of Chicago's oldest export businesses. Among their exports was the vacuum coffeemaker made by Cory Corp., then a small company run by Founder Harvey Cory. Young Alsdorf did so well selling the coffeemaker in coffee-drenched Brazil that he began to think of what he could do with proper salesmanship in the U.S. In 1942, when Founder Cory retired, Alsdorf and a group of friends scraped up enough money to buy control of the company. He added electric fans, stoves and air humidifiers to the Cory line...