Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GOLD OF THE RIVER SEA, by Charlton Ogburn. In the framework of an exciting adventure novel, Author Ogburn (The Marauders) shows himself to be a richly talented recorder of the beauty and savagery of the Amazon and the jungles of Brazil...
...sold their kith and kin, your ancestors and mine, into slavery to the New World. What is more, the African chiefs and middle-men who participated in the slave trade were aware that thousands on each slave ship would die like dogs of diseases before reaching their destination in Brazil, Guiana, West Indies, or the American South. This, I'm sad to say, is little different in my reckoning from the Germans' participation in the Nazi regime, knowing that such participation meant death for millions of Jews and other people...
...years ago, St. Louis summoned Conductor Eleazar de Carvalho from Brazil to take over its ailing orchestra, and Conductor de Carvalho, 49, lost no time in letting the patrons know what they could expect. "I am a man of the avant-garde," he said in his first press conference. "We must do something to open their ears...
...assets: that is nearly double the $56 billion of foreign holdings in the U.S. American assets abroad range from giant factories to such enterprises as a mink farm recently opened in Korea, a ski lift run by two young expatriates in Berlin, and the two largest ad agencies in Brazil. World business has become so intertwined that European holdings in the U.S. are about as great as U.S. holdings in Europe. Such well-known companies as Capitol Records, U.S. Borax, Lever Bros, and Shell are European-controlled...
...Quest. It is the slack time of the 1930s, and Julian Tate is a young man in need of a quest. He finds it on the day he is offered a job working in Brazil for a man named Joao Monteiro, who is trying to interest Wall Street capital in a mining concession on the Massaranduba River, a major tributary far up the Amazon. There is gold in the Massaranduba valley, and rumors of diamonds and emeralds as well. But what fires Jul ian is the chance to explore the tropic frontier, to prospect and map the river and rain...