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President Getulio Vargas of Brazil, ex-critic, author of his own speeches (twelve published volumes), was made a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. He was the first Brazilian chief of state to make...
...they are to receive between 36.4 and 39.3% of the payments. ... If this is to be the treatment meted out to creditors then any hope of a revival of genuine international lending had better be abandoned. . . . The British authorities were unwilling or unable to put any pressure on the Brazilian Government in favor of a less inequitable settlement. . . . To put the matter quite bluntly, the British holder of Brazilian obligations has been made a sacrifice to Pan-Americanism...
...Butler said Brazilian rubber was costing the U.S. "$500 a pound." Reply: he mistook 30,000 tons for 30,000 "pounds"; actual cost...
Last week the Brazilian Government was deep in a slam-bang fight to keep prices down. Latest measure: an order compelling food stores to stock essential foods, sell them at a 10% maximum profit...
...Alberto took charge. When a worried U.S. mission arrived, his dictator-boss (untroubled by constitutional restrictions) had already given him power over nearly every detail of Brazilian economic life. If the Americans expected to meet a wordy tropical dreamer, João Alberto surprised them with his quality of calm decision, his drive and force...