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Word: brazilians (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Never before have men burned so much that is good to drink. But desperate Brazilians are convinced that their course is shrewd, point to "favorable results already." By this they mean that Brazilian coffee prices have risen in New York about 40% since the coffee bonfires were lighted last year. Other commodity prices have not kept pace, remain tragically down, thus strengthening Brazilians in their will to bean destruction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Destroy! Destroy! | 6/6/1932 | See Source »

Larger than the largest diamond found in South Africa's Kimberley Mines (442 carats) or in her De Beers Mines (503 carats) was a monstrous Brazilian diamond of 574 carats found last week by an impecunious prospector in Bello Horizonte, 300 miles from Rio de Janeiro, on the lands of rich Dona Dolores Matta Machado Vidigal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: 574 Carats | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

...country," said the Brazilian delegate Senor Jose Carlos de Maceno modestly, "has never fought a single war of aggression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: No More Poison Gas! | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

Harold J. L. ("Bert") Hinkler may be counted on to do the unexpected. He did it again last week. Three days after the British Ambassador effected Hinkler's release by Brazilian authorities, who had arrested him for flying "out of bounds'' (TIME. Nov. 30), Hinkler was out over the South Atlantic in his little 90-h. p. Puss Moth, alone as Lindbergh. Behind him lay the port of Natal; ahead of him a 1,600-mi. span to Africa which no airplane had yet flown eastward. In moonlight darkened by occasional squalls Pilot Hinkler flew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Moth Man | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

Like Herndon & Pangborn, who ran -afoul of the Japanese authorities for flying over forbidden ground, Harold J. L. ("Bert") Hinkler was arrested last week by local officials at Fortaleza, Brazil because he showed no authorization to fly over Brazilian territory and had "not sufficient proof of his identity." Pilot Hink-.ler's excuse was the same as the Pacific flyers': that an advance telegram of introduction, requesting courtesy of state air fields, was not delivered. Forgiven and forgiving, Flyers Herndon & Pangborn went last week to the Japanese Consulate in Manhattan and received the White Medal of Merit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Out of Bounds | 11/30/1931 | See Source »

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