Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...protested because common market plans to eliminate tariffs on imports from its own members' overseas territories, but maintain steep tariffs on other imports. Thus, French and Belgian territories in Africa would get much of the brisk European tea, coffee and cocoa trade now dominated by India, Ceylon, Indonesia, Brazil, Ghana...
...professional qualifications, more professional regard. In the U.S. he graduated from Air Corps Tactical School at Maxwell Field, Ala., the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth. Kans. Abroad he served as an assistant air attache to Italy and Greece, as commander of a military air mission to Brazil (where he spoke Portuguese). Everywhere Tommy White went, from arctic Russia to Brazil, he went out fishing, collecting rare specimens, discoursing to his British wife Constance Millicent Rowe (his second) on the delights of ichthyology. White would catch the fish, getting soaked to the skin; Constance would paint them...
West Germany's durable Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, remarkably unaware that he could slow down at 81, said he will fly down to Rio for a visit next year, at Brazil's invitation, to boost economic and cultural ties...
...Brazil self-righteously spurned offers by foreign companies with technical know-how to develop its petroleum resources, instead gave the job to a government monopoly. Result: Brazil produced only 12% of its 1956 requirements, had to spend $268 million on oil imports...
...result has been a jolting setback in the struggle toward a better life. By and large, the workers and middle classes of Argentina, Chile, Bolivia and Brazil live worse than they did ten years ago. And of all the nations of the world, they are among the least able to afford economic setbacks. Reason: their populations increase 2 14% annually, twice the world average; they must run twice as fast just to stand still...