Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wicker-chaired lobby of the musty-genteel Central Hotel, Army officers, party leaders and Cabinet Ministers waited their turn to join the sessions in his room. The likely outcome: an agreement to forget petty politicking in Congress and tackle the nation's considerable economic ills together. Perhaps later Brazil would have a coalition cabinet...
...request. His traveling days began unexpectedly back in 1930 when Dictator Vargas rode into Rio at the head of his gauchos and kicked out President Washington Luiz and cabinet, including Foreign Minister Mangabeira. For the next four years, Mangabeira lived in eleven European countries. He went back to Brazil, spurned a Vargas peace offering and had the courage to blackball the dictator for the Brazilian Academy of Letters...
Soon, Quebec engineers hope to take out 160 tons of ore a day from Grindstone Island pits. It can be shipped cheaply to Baltimore for $2.50 a ton (it costs two or three times as much to ship ore from the great world sources in Brazil or India). The industrial revolution is bringing the Magdalens-once known mainly for their sea birds, especially gannets-out of the mists at last...
...founder of the influential Federation of São Paulo Industries (equivalent of the U.S. National Association of Manufacturers), he has worked persuasively to win its members to enlightened economic ideas. He wants, he says, to make Brazil a "place where a working man can save something out of his weekly pay check instead of going steadily into debt." On such a basis, Simonsen believes, the country can build a sound economy...
...Thinker. A stocky, powerfully built man with a scholar's face, Simonsen is not just a moneymaker. Intellectual as well as industrialist, he founded the São Paulo School of Economics, has written 17 books, including the definitive two-volume Economic History of Brazil. Recently he was elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters. He is president of the Brazilian Red Cross, belongs to a hatful of foreign scientific societies. In the Senate, where he is regarded as the best-dressed member, Simonsen takes his work seriously. He seldom speaks from the floor, but puts in hard licks...