Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will speak on atomic energy and agriculture); J. Carlton Ward Jr., president of Vitro Corp. of America, and A. C. Monteith, a vice president of Westinghouse Electric Corp. (who will go into the subject of industrial applications of atomic energy). Professor Joaqqim Costa Ribeiro, scientific director of Brazil's National Research Council, will discuss the opportunities for commercial development of atomic energy in Latin America...
After a brief presidency of a Brazil milling company, National Guard Officer Holmes was called to war. He served on Dwight Eisenhower's staff, slipped into Algeria by submarine with General Mark Clark to prepare the North African invasion, rose from lieutenant colonel to brigadier general...
Delegates of Brazil's biggest political party gathered in Rio last week and noisily chose a presidential candidate for next October's election. The nominee Juscelino Kubitschek, 53, samba-dancing, spellbinding governor of the Texas-sized inland state of Minas Gerais. After the balloting (1,646 to 0, with 279 abstentions), Kubitschek's followers roared his longtime political theme song, Peixe Vivo (Living Fish), an old Portuguese ballad...
...spent $26 million setting up 26 stores in five Latin American countries. Last year Sears grossed $79 million on its Latin American sales-and Latin America profited in several ways. Since Sears's sales of locally produced products averaged anywhere from 35% (in Cuba) to nearly 100% (in Brazil), thousands of new manufacturing jobs were created, in addition to the 6,000 jobs supplied directly by Sears (only 100 of its Latin America employees are U.S. citizens...
...that cattle are the first victims of civil disturbances. Chile, whose forests and minerals beckon paper and chemical industries, has liberal tax-exemption provisions for foreign capital. But they are meaningless, since employers must add 25% to their government-cushioned wage bills in the form of social-security payments. Brazil is so queasy about foreign exploitation that citizens married to foreigners may not even own oil stocks. Result: Brazil's potentially rich oil reserves are virtually untapped...