Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...profits ($59 million in fiscal 1955), he became an ardent booster, hand-picked Waugh and backed his policy of increasing the flow of loans. Now President Waugh is funneling out new loans at a greater rate than last year. Among them: $19.6 million to the Santos-Jundiai Railway in Brazil, $3,300,000 to Chile for more steel, $14 million to Iran, $65 million to the Philippines for general economic development...
...Born in Brazil, Ind., Hoffa at four lost his coal prospector father, at 14 quit school to go to work full time. His self-introduction to the labor movement came at 19, when, as a 32?-an-hour warehouseman for a Detroit grocery chain, he led a successful wildcat strike of fellow employees. Within three years he had taken over Teamsters Local 299 in Detroit, was president of the Michigan Conference of Teamsters...
...trucks to his churns. Through it all, though, Adhemar treated such charges with good-natured indifference. "You people believe I'm a thief," he said in a speech. "You're right. I'm a thief. But I steal only for you, for the people of Brazil...
Last week, to the stunned amazement of all Brazil, Adhemar was back in the soup. Briskly reversing an earlier acquittal, Sao Paulo's state supreme court found Adhemar guilty of giving away five state-owned trucks, and sentenced him to two years in jail and five years' suspension of his civil rights, i.e., his all-important right to run for governor of Sao Paulo in 1958 or President again in 1960. The latter penalty was a grievous blow for Adhemar; he ran a close third in last October's na tional election, racked up a solid...
...Brazil, the chief rebels were Major Haroldo Coimbra Veloso and Captain José Lameirão, a pair of air force officers. Commandeering a Beechcraft, they flew from Rio to a set of airstrips well up the Amazon, took the strips by pulling rank on the noncoms in command, and signed up some recruits. Biggest prize: Santarem, a town (pop. 15,000) and airport on the river. The rebels kept pursuing planes from landing by strewing logs and oil drums on the strips; at length the government, more embarrassed than harassed, loaded 700 soldiers aboard a river boat...