Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Several weeks ago, on the morning of the voting, Masaryk, accompanied by Russia's Andrei Gromyko, turned up in the office of the Assembly President, Brazil's suave Oswaldo Aranha, and announced that Czechoslovakia did not choose to run. Gromyko said that the Ukraine would be a candidate instead. Latin American delegates then agreed to support the Ukraine's Dmitri Manuilsky. This did not indicate any love of Russia south of the border (see LATIN AMERICA). The Latins assumed that the U.S. was willing to see the Security Council go on voting...
Before the yellow stucco house at No. 114 Rua 7 de Setembro in the dirty little town of Rio Casca in Minas Gerais State, some 8,000 people, a mosaic of the diseases of Brazil, had been softly singing the haunting hymn I Shall Be with My Mother. The faded grey shutters of the house swung open. A hush came over the malformed, the sick, the hopeful and the curious. One man fell on his knees. Behind him a weeping father supported a son on whose face was an idiot's grin...
Sweet Tooth. The villain seemed indeed to be the British Government, which through its British Cocoa Control Board last year sold some 300,000 tons, about half the world output. It sets the pace for similar Government agencies in Brazil and the Dominican Republic. All three, by dint of shrewd timing in deliveries, have made fat profits in the U.S. market. But the British were not wholly responsible for the price rise...
Like Stettinius Associates, World Commerce Corp. plans to provide capital equipment and technological know-how. It already has representatives in 47 countries and six partially owned subsidiaries in Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Egypt, Panama and the Philippines. To overcome the world dollar shortage, it has set up a complex system of bartering currencies and goods. The corporation provided the dollars to buy raw materials from Sweden for a British manufacturer, took payment in British goods. It also started a $3,000,000 cement plant in Jamaica with capital in English sterling, machinery and supplies from Canada...
...four days last week the eleventh U.S. Provincial Eucharistic Congress celebrated the centenary of the Roman Catholic diocese of Buffalo. Among the high ranking prelates from six countries were Peru's Cardinal Guevara and Brazil's Cardinal de Vasconcellos Motta-the first South American Cardinals ever to attend a U.S. Congress. New York's Cardinal Spellman told the Congress: "It is folly for us to deceive ourselves that we are at peace, for in truth we know naught for which we fought has come to fruit. The whole world and every human in it today face...