Word: brazilianizing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...give fair value for the properties. Since World War II, increased expenses and government-set rates have caught the U.S. and Canadian companies that run Brazil's telephone and power plants in a profit squeeze that has kept them from needed expansion. Canada's $1 billion Brazilian Traction, Light & Power Co. Ltd., which owns 82% of Brazil's 956,000 telephones and one-third of the installed power capacity, has been making only 1% to 2% on its investment. It says it can do nothing about the complaint that some 300,000 citizens of Rio de Janeiro...
Brazil's Francisco de Assis Chateaubriand Bandeira de Mello-"Chatô" to Brazilians-has fallen on sad times. He was the builder and sole commander of an $85 million, 58-company empire that included 31 newspapers, twelve television stations, 22 radio stations, four magazines, a news agency, two pharmaceutical laboratories and three coffee-and-cattle ranches. He crusaded to push Brazil into the air age, with a campaign that dotted the nation with aviation clubs. He built child-care centers all over Brazil, bullied friends and enemies into filling a $15 million Sāo Paulo art museum with...
...broad chasm that Chatô, in his frantic private life, dug between himself and his children. In 1922 he married the daughter of a French architect living in Brazil; the two separated before his first son, Gilberto, was born. Three years later, Chatô married the daughter of a Brazilian banker; before they parted, his second son, Fernando, was born. Chatô saw to it that his two sons were well educated and well provided for, but beyond that he had little time for them. After one of his frequent quarrels with his father, Son Gilberto went to Europe, there...
Communists & Catholics. Many Brazilians fear that it is only a matter of time before simmering discontent boils over into outright revolution. In 1955 Francisco Juliāo, a youthful, self-styled Marxist messiah, founded the Northeast's first peasant league. Today there are 98 peasant leagues in six states, some Marxist, others not; they have 40,000 members and uncounted sympathizers, have taken over 12,350 acres of rich coastal land, have fought pitched battles with the landlords' hired gunmen, and brought Brazilian infantry troops double-timing to the Northeast in regimental strength. What holds back the revolution...
Died. Geremia Lunardelli, 77, coffee king of Brazil for 35 years, an Italian immigrant's son who, though scarcely able to sign his name, carved out a domain of coffee plantations that stretched 300 miles inland from the Atlantic, became an arbiter of the Brazilian economy while spurning honors and titles, saying "I'm only a farm hand; it is the earth that should be decorated"; of a heart attack; in Sāo Paulo, Brazil...