Word: brazilians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government itself has spent millions on Nordeste roads, irrigation and other projects. Under Brazilian law, individuals are offered exemptions of up to 50% of their taxable incomes for investments in Nordeste communications, farming and industrial projects. So anxious is the government that corporations are allowed to take half of their tax debts, invest the money in the Nordeste. What with other government sweeteners, including long term, very low interest loans, it is quite possible to set up a $1,000,000 Nordeste enterprise with only $50,000 cash...
...Brazilian investors have not taken full advantage of the situation, but foreigners are showing a lively interest. Willys-Overland, 38%-owned by Kaiser Industries, two months ago began assembling Jeeps near the Nordeste city of Recife, where Kelvinator is already building refrigerators. Firestone plans an $11 million tire plant and Italy's Pirelli is building a wire and conductor factory. Other European groups are setting up ventures in canning, batteries and cement forms. Last week the U.S.-backed Inter-American Development Bank chipped in $29.5 million to help finance a $79 million expansion of the Paulo Afonso hydroelectric plant...
...reassuring statements about UFOs are designed to hoodwink the public into supposing that they are psychological, meteoric, or astral in origin. Nor is sinister Air Force activity confined to the U.S. "What," he asks, "was the mysterious substance that dribbled from a crippled disk over Brazil in 1954?" The Brazilian air force gathered it up and hid it away. (It may have been tin.) The Australian, French, and Indian air forces are also in cahoots with the U.S. Even the Kremlin is involved in a secret pact with the infidel against the UFOs...
...foreigners visit American families demonstrates a degree of hospitality that surprised many tourists. Rosemarie Barth, a West Berlin secretary, looked up acquaintances in Denver and reported that at once their friends "called me by my first name, which I liked very much." Language is always a barrier, but a Brazilian doctor says that his wife managed to spend $200 in a dress shop "on a total vocabulary of 'pink,' 'blue,' 'white,' 'my size' and 'how much.' " Other U.S. pluses, by consensus: ice cream, San Francisco, corn on the cob, roadside...
...political parties and replaced them with a two-party system, he had not imagined just how difficult it would be to form an opposition. Almost no body wanted to join the out-of-power party, but Castello Branco finally man aged to recruit 164 reluctant Congress men into MODEBRAS (Brazilian Democratic Movement) as a loyal opposition to his ARENA (National Renovation Alliance). But Castello Branco's efforts may have been in vain. Last week, as it held its first national convention, MODEBRAS refused to oppose...