Word: brazilianizing
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...story began in 1942, when the U.S., shut off from the East Indies, wanted natural rubber at any cost.*Brazil was a possible source. Contracts were signed with the Brazilian Government, which, for $100 a head, agreed to round up and carry workers to the Amazon. Glowing advertisements brought in many a drought-ridden farmer of Brazil's Northeast. Others were shanghaied...
Pablo Picasso y Ruiz was having a one-man show last week. Among the people who flocked to see it in Paris' Galerie Louis Carré was the Brazilian Ambassador to France, an amateur of the arts. Two art experts guided him to a painting which-like many recent Picassos-had a few careless spots on it as well as several places where the great man had obviously painted over his earlier attempts. The Ambassador would have none of it, triumphantly selected a nice clean one to take home...
Outfaced by public clamor and ridicule, and the Brazilian Association of Pharmacists, the Government last week backed down. Druggists could needle cariocas...
...station, he was met and embraced by Perón himself and cheered by thousands of descamisados (shirtless ones) specially summoned by the Strong Man to make a fraternal greeting to "the representative of Brazil's marmiteiros [dinner-pail carriers]." Luzardo responded by grabbing and kissing Argentine and Brazilian flags...
...other parts of Brazil, the anti-Communist drive continued. The Government, in breaking up a strike against the Leopoldina Railway staged by $25 a month firemen, blamed the work stoppage on Communist "millionaire Luis Carlos Prestes." Brazilian democrats hoped that heavy-handed Dutra, in stamping out Communism, would not also crush democracy...