Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trade News. In São Paulo, Brazil, the Paulista Pugilistic Federation, meeting in conference, was forced to halt proceedings temporarily when the session turned into a free-for-all fist fight...
...grants will bring an English girl from Cambridge University to study in the United States for the first time. Nine states, the District of Columbia, Brazil, the British Isles, Canada, China, Puerto Rico, and Turkey are represented by the fellowship winners, who have studied in 30 universities here and abroad...
...GRAYDON Rio de Janeiro, Brazil...
...what capitalist enterprise can do were given by Nelson Rockefeller, president of the International Basic Economy Corp., a business with the avowed purpose of raising living standards through the use of American know-how in backward areas. The audience sat fascinated as he told how the corporation saved Brazil $100 million a year by spraying coffee plantations with an insecticide, killing an African pest called broca. With obvious pride in American resourcefulness, he gleefully described how the updraft caused by the helicopter presses the chemical against the underside of the infested leaves,"precisely where it is needed...
...contrary, Argentine hit-&-run trading had damaged ties with these countries. Chile, for example, was trying to get along with less Argentine beef, and Uruguay without Argentine tourists. Even Paraguay, virtually an Argentine colony, was turning more & more to Brazil. Brazil herself, Argentina's best customer in Latin America, muttered angrily over the recent Argentine emergency decree blocking off all imports...