Word: brazilianizing
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...Brazilians work brilliant designs with figures. It was the Brazilian plan to stabilize the international coffee market that introduced the word "valorization" to the world in 1906. Today, after 40 years of valorizing, bargaining, spoiling land and burning crops, a few coffee merchants and Government officials are comfortably rich -and 90% of the population is as poor as ever. Millions of tons of coffee lie in warehouses. Thousands of acres of coffee land have been abandoned to armies of ants, to small-scale farms, to be worked by the children of slaves, who have so lost their talent for farming...
...Baku was the first Russian ship to call at Brazilian ports since 1917. Citizens of Santos and Porto Alegre paddled out on surfboards to greet female members of her crew. The captain bade his ladies stay aboard, let it be known that by next year 50 Soviet ships would be plying South American waters. From lighters he began taking aboard coffee and hides...
Three years ago, the Chavantes again stood in the path of Brazil's great dream-the "March to the West." Airmen of the Brazilian Central Foundation, a grandiose colonizing scheme, dropped on them pots, pans and even pictures of Hollywood pinup girls. That only frightened the Indians. Rondon's Indian Service tried again. More presents were left: machetes, bright cloth. Recently, the Indians nibbled. Every 15 days they gathered in large numbers for the gifts. Last week the 156-year-old war was over. To General Rondon, now 82 and in Rio, the leader of the mission...
...Interstate Commerce Commission, Federal Communications Commission, Department of State. Most recent sample of the boners that result: CAB last week blandly certified South Atlantic routes via Brazil to Pan American Airways, Inc. while the State Department was still pressing an uphill fight in Rio de Janeiro for a Brazilian agreement...
...first home-town performance in six years, Soprano Sayao chose Debussy's ethereal opera, Pelléas et Mélisande, which she considers her best job at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. (Said she: "I don't know how Brazilian audience will receive this thing. They just begin to understand Wagner and Debussy maybe.") Her suspicions were right...