Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fuss about Brazil's so-called inflation? If they can sell only 260,000 bags of surplus coffee for an "unexpected $15 billion" [Aug. 15], perhaps the U.S. can borrow from Brazil...
...miles outside Bogota is a privately operated project that one American diplomat calls "the most outstanding example of technical assistance in South America." There last week five grain specialists, with their assistants, painstakingly harvested and examined 30,000 different wheat strains from Canada, Russia, the U.S., Germany, Brazil, Britain, Chile, Mexico, India, while other workers planted experimental fields containing thousands more for harvest and research next year. Some day soon the scientists of Tibaitata Experiment Station hope to find the strains that best combine yield, taste, nutritional quality, disease and insect resistance. When they do, one of a dozen programs...
Readers of Rio de Janeiro's daily Ultima Hora (circ. 135.000) are no strangers to sensation, but even they were shaken to their gonads by the blaring headline: TERROR IN BRAZIL MEN FEMINIZED...
...there anything to it ? Probably not, because only a minute proportion of Brazil's beeves have been fattened with the aid of hormones. And when the job is done right, by adding stilbestrol (or a related synthetic, hormone-like substance) in doses of ten milligrams daily to each animal's feed, nearly all the hormone is metabolized or passes through the digestive tract. Virtually none can ever be found in the meat if the hormone feeding is stopped (as required under U.S. regulations) 48 hours before slaughter...
Desperate to put down the local alarm, authorities in Rio insisted that there was no danger in Brazil but plenty in the U.S. where hormone fattening is standard practice. Trouble with this argument: U.S. authorities have not turned up a single proven case of enough hormone getting through to have any detectable effect. Last week Director Jayme Lins de Almeida of the Brazilian government's Institute of Animal Biology announced that he was starting "rigorous official experiments" to find out who is right...