Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bock, one of the German scientists taken to Russia after the war, went home to report that "in branches of science where Marxism-Leninism is not directly applicable, there is no feeling of oppression. I could discuss my field with no sense of being in Russia or America or Brazil." Adds U.S. Meteorologist Gordon D. Cartwright, who recently spent some 18 months on a Russian scientific expedition to the Antarctic: "These were unique people-warm, friendly and full of fun." Politics almost never raised its unscientific head...
Through rolling backlands in the five states that form Brazil's eastern bulge, crops of beans, corn and sugar cane were dead; 2,000,000 people gnawed cactus, dug holes in dry river beds for water or joined a dogged, starving march to the sea. The flagelo da seca, the dry whip that lashes the bulge country on the average of once a decade, was in its third month of fury. Some 370,000 flagelados (whipped ones) supported themselves and their families on relief wages of 30? a day -half the food allowance of a Brazilian army horse...
...newcomers are grabbing business mostly by making themselves the "discount houses of the air." Brazil's big Real-Aerovias charges only $432 for the round-trip excursion flight between Miami and Buenos Aires, as compared with the $779 asked by International Air Transport Association members such as Pan American. Panama's Aerovias flies from Panama to Miami for $55, v. the standard $94-and serves Scotch highballs on the house. Last week, grimly preparing to meet the competition, Panagra got set to introduce an excursion fare of its own that will undercut I.A.T.A. rates...
...Varig of Brazil offers champagne-and-lobster catering. The turboprop Britannias of Aeronaves de Mexico feature speed; they have cut the New York-Mexico City flight to 6½ hours. Safety standards are generally high because inter national airlines must meet the require ments of the strictest country they land in, which in the case of 26 Latin American airlines...
Since 1953 Ruschi has been cautiously testing his germs. They kill bats all right, but he wants to be sure that they will not kill desirable animals or have other harmful biological effects. If no such disadvantages show up, the bat-killers of Brazil and other vampire-menaced countries will soon fan out into the jungle, catch vampire bats, infect them with the disease, and release them to return to their caves and pile them high with dead...