Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Firm acceptances were in from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela and most important, the U.S. Bolivia, El Salvador and Peru planned to send their presidents-elect. Indications were that at week's end, when the guests get together for the first formal meeting of the two-day conference, at least 17 chief executives and presidents-elect* would be on hand to lend glitter to the largest collection of heads of state ever to baffle a protocol officer in charge of dinner seating...
...FREE MARKET OFFICIAL RATE Argentina 32 pesos to the $1 18 to the $1 Bolivia 5,500 bolivianos 190 Brazil 83 cruzeiros 18.75 Burma 10 kayats 4.76 Finland 300 marks France 395 francs 350 Japan 385 yen 360 Pakistan 6.40 rupees 4.76 Philippines 2.85 pesos Spain 43 pesetas Turkey 9.50 lire...
...Drawing Prize ($400) : to Brazil's Aldemir Martins, 34, for his six clean-lined drawings, which included birds and human figures that won his prize in this year's São Paulo Bíenal...
...business of exporting reactors to foreign countries, the U.S. is already substantially ahead. The U.S. has built and sold one research reactor to Switzerland, has contracts to sell four more to Spain, Brazil, Japan and Italy, and is to build a full-fledged commercial reactor for Belgium. Thus the U.S. is far ahead of Russia and Britain in the sale of research reactors, and is the only nation planning to export a commercial reactor...
...domestic sales slumped 18% during 1956's first quarter. However, export sales jumped 29%, and Edgar Kaiser thinks the future of the auto company lies abroad. Kaiser's new Willys plant in Argentina started producing last month, and he is negotiating for a complete manufacturing operation in Brazil, has already licensed assembly plants in Turkey and Israel...