Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flag-draped platform in Philadelphia, a white-bearded man in plug hat and frock coat stood towering over President Ulysses S. Grant. The visitor was Dom Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, who had come north on the British liner Hevelius for the U.S.'s centennial exposition. When a technician explained to him that the newly invented Corliss steam engine in Machinery Hall made some 36 revolutions a minute, Dom Pedro cracked: "That is better than our Latin American republics...
...Saluta, Atkinson found him running "the whole gamut from vulgarity to grossness" with "immense enthusiasm and no discrimination at all." Since then, Berle's theatrical record consists of two moderate successes (See My Lawyer and the Ziegfeld Follies of 1943) and, most recently, an immoderate flop (Spring in Brazil). He has also flopped several times as a producer and backer. As a producer, he did so much tampering with one show that, an observer recalls, "When it opened out of town, everybody on the stage looked and talked like Berle...
...than the surplus material, originally worth $112,200,000, which the U.S. Army had rationed out to them at knockdown prices as low as 10? on the dollar after World War II. Of the total, the biggest amount ($20.3 million worth) went to Mexico, followed by Chile ($19.9 million), Brazil ($19.5 million) and Cuba ($15.6 million). Argentina got only $5.7 million...
...expired. Thereupon Argentina made a deal to buy $7,000,000 worth of U.S.-made arms at current cost, but the dollar-shy Perón government has so far been able to pick up only $1,800,000 worth of the order. Since the Argentine deal was made, Brazil, Colombia, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Peru and Uruguay have all tried to buy in the U.S. market. Their orders have not been big enough for U.S. manufacturers to start up production lines...
Married. Dom Joāo de Orléans e Bragança, 33, great-grandson of Brazil's last emperor, now a captain in the Brazilian air force; and Princess Fatima, 26, sister-in-law of Egypt's King Farouk; she for the second time; in Sintra, Portugal...