Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past three years. In the next few weeks nearly every U.N. country this side of the Iron Curtain will be visited by a prominent Frenchman, explaining France's position in Algeria. Emile Roche, president of the Economic Council, is already in Buenos Aires. Christian Pineau will go to Brazil, Senate President Gaston Monnerville (a Negro) to Peru, and Foreign Office Under Secretary Maurice Faure to Indonesia, India, Pakistan and Ceylon...
...century passed before Sir Walter Raleigh in 1595 carried to Europe the first samples of "urari"-a variant of curare. Years later botanists classified the shrubs from which curare is made,* and the brilliant French physiologist, Claude Bernard, in 1856 made an important discovery: from samples supplied by Brazil's Emperor Pedro II he showed that curare paralyzes its victims by blocking transmission of impulses from nerve to muscle. Beyond that, scientists were as baffled as laymen by the mysteries of curare...
...Indians Make It. The basic rules for preparing curare vary little over millions of square miles, reported French Ethnologist Jehan Vellard, who has watched the process in Brazil's Mato Grosso, and now works in Peru. The essential components are dissolved out of the roots or stalks with cold or tepid water, and the solution is concentrated by heating. The finished product is a gooey paste. Natives have no fear of inhaling its vapors or of putting their hands in it, and they judge its strength by the bitterness of a drop, which they nonchalantly taste...
...high. This took the dollar down to 95? worth of a March 1956 dollar, 50? worth of a pre-World War II dollar. Down, too, during the past 16 months were the currencies of Britain, Italy, Sweden, Belgium, Australia and Japan (about 5%), India (10%), Spain (11%), Argentina (16%), Brazil (27%) and Chile...
Peddling his yarn like an oldtime pitchman, Marinotti personally established new markets in India, South Korea and Russia (where his ability to outdrink the Russians proved a great advantage). To get around customs barriers, he set up subsidiaries in Spain, France, South Africa, Mexico, Argentina and Brazil. To cut rising costs, Snia Viscosa spent more than $30 million on new plants, pushed production of its own raw materials, power and machinery. Marinotti expanded the company's experimental research center, put 400 technicians to developing a full line of artificial fibers to compete on world markets...