Word: brazilians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made four models equipped with paper propellers. Many later efforts undoubtedly are lost to history, but in 1871 a helicopter of obscure fate was built in France by M. A. Penaud. Experiments were made with slight success in 1905 by the Dane, Ellehammer; in 1906 in France by the Brazilian, Santos-Dumont, in 1907 by M. Bréguet. By 1923 Austria had its Petroczy; Great Britain its Brennan; France its Damblanc, Oemichen and Pescara; Spain its la Cierva. In the U. S., meanwhile, Henry Berliner, Baltimore aircraft builder, had spent a fortune in a decade's experiment, and Rumanian Professor...
...matter of fact Senhor Prestes frequently saw both U. S. and Brazilian coffee men last week, but this was only natural. Before his election he was President (Governor) of the State of São Paulo (famed "Stepping Stone to the Brazilian Presidency") where more than half the world's coffee is grown and where almost every man of means is more or less "in coffee." When he landed at Manhattan nearly every paper flaunted a quarter page "WELCOME" advertisement signed by "The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, Largest Importers of Brazilian Coffee...
...Many a Brazilian placed side by side last week pictures of Allan Hoover, 23, and Fernando Prestes, 22 . These smart sons are as typical of their respective peoples as their able fathers. Son Allan, graduate of Stanford University, is taking the course at Harvard Business School, must spend this summer in the employ of a real business (American Radiator Co.) to see such things as budgeting and accounting in practical operation. Son Fernando, graduate of the University of Brazil, spent his college vacations mostly in Europe, pleasure bent. At home he is rated an excellent horseman, tennis player, yachtsman, ladies...
Dizzying America. Brazilian Ambassador S. Gurgél do Amaral gave President-elect Prestes his final send-off from Washington with a banquet of 300 guests brilliantly staged in the Pan-American Union's imposing "Hall of the Americas." Although he had every legal right to serve wine the Ambassador refrained "at the request of Senhor Prestes" and "as a special courtesy to President Hoover...
...offer, made Lebanon the Ulen capital. But not midwestern are Ulen & Co. activities: Ulen engineers today are work ing upon three dams in Chile, a $23,000,000 land-reclamation project in northern Greece, the construction of Persia's only trunk-line railroad, and the operation of Brazilian public utilities. Monumental Ulen works are the Shandaken Tunnel through the Catskills (longest - 18 mi. - - hydraulic tunnel in the world, five miles longer than the Swiss Simplon tunnel), finished in 1922, and the Marathon Dam, completed last fall, supplying water for the city of Athens, and overlooking the famed battlefield where...