Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...works thus: CAFE, a stock company incorporated in Brazil, owns good red-earth Paraguayan land half the size of Delaware, near Pedro Juan Caballero. For $15,000 the company will sell from its holdings a complete 123½-acre farm, including a nanny goat, a sow, a bee colony, gardens and 22,500 young coffee trees...
...Texas bragging hides a long, sound business background. After a hard-knocks youth, he went to work in 1923 for Anderson, Clayton & Co., big U.S. cotton merchants, as a cotton weigher at $110 a month. He moved up fast. "In 1938," he recalled, "I was sent to Brazil to manage the company's cotton compress at São Paulo. On the way down by boat, I happened some way to sit at the captain's table. He was an Englishman, an' he took to ridin' me pretty hard until one night I says...
...Brazil got its last important candidate for the October presidential elections. His name surprised no one. The new candidate was Adhemar de Barros...
...Adhemar," as his admirers in the industrially powerful state of São Paulo call him, has long wanted to "take over the management of Brazil, Inc." In 1950, however, he deferred to the late Getulio Vargas, instead took aim on 1955. Last year his ambitions suffered a crippling blow; running for governor in São Paulo, as a fitting steppingstone to the presidency, Adhemar lost. After that, whenever a reporter whipped out a notebook, Adhemar insisted that he would run only if drafted and thus forced to "bow to the will of the people...
Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 8 (French National Orchestra conducted by the composer; Angel). The eighth of Villa-Lobos' nine important works inspired by Bach and flavored by Brazil in its first recording. The music is mellow, slightly warmer than body heat, touched with musical humor in the paso doble part of the second movement, and generally more relaxed than the music of temperate climes...