Word: brazilians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seeds to London, thence sent them to Ceylon. And by 1900 the Far East had exported four tons of rubber; in 1910, 8,000 tons. In 1913 the Far East, producing rubber on plantations, exported more than Brazil. Since then increased competition and lower rubber prices have practically annihilated Brazilian rubber...
From the outset, the Ford company met with difficulties. The concession he bought was an old one and contained certain clauses which angered Brazilians, made a political issue out of the enterprise. Suspicion increased so soon as he paid more than the average wage-scale. He encountered difficulties in exporting seeds from other Brazilian states to Para, where his plantation is. Few of the rubber trees planted have survived...
...induct the new provisional President, Getulio Vargas, No. i revolutionist (TIME, Oct. 13 et seq.}. In these circumstances there was no swearing in but a five-minute ceremony: Dr. Vargas signed a paper declaring that he is President. Nations which recognized him three days later: Italy, Portugal (Brazilians speak Portuguese), Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Uruguay. Two more days passed before the U. S. and Great Britain recognized Revolutionist Vargas almost simultaneously (see p. 16). France followed a day later. The New Cabinet is considered "strong." Foreign Minister Afranio de Mello Franco used to represent Brazil at League of Nations meetings...
...Janeiro and Sao Paulo last week, Brazilian publishers were picking up the pieces left by the wild mobs that looted, sacked and wrecked pro-Washington Luis newspaper offices at the end of Brazil's revolution (TIME...
Most graphic picture of the mob attack, which accounted for the muzzling of between 50 and 60 Brazilian papers opposed to the revolution, was given by the United Press's Brazil Manager C. Arthur Powell in Editor & Publisher of last fortnight. Long trained as correspondent for the Associated Press in Havana until six months ago, sandy-haired Reporter Powell earned from admiring Cubans the name Car a Dura (Hard Face), is not prone to exaggerate: Worst damage ("several million dollars") suffered by the Rio newspaper plants was inflicted upon A Noite in its new 24-story building, highest in South...