Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interview in one of his busiest weeks. It was Argentina's annual army week, the 133rd anniversary of independence from Spain. There was a three-hour-long parade, followed by wreath-laying ceremonies, honorary reviews and state receptions. The two guests of honor, General Canrobert Pereira da Costa, Brazil's war minister, and Lieut. General Matthew B. Ridgway, commander of U.S. forces in the Caribbean, both got decorations...
...campus of Brazil's Rural University last week, the atmosphere was anything but collegiate. In black cassocks and brown robes, 41 priests and monks said their prayers at improvised altars in the dormitory halls, then went on to lectures and field demonstrations on crop rotation, irrigation and rural sanitation. What they learned in their month's stay would be passed along with their sermons and ministrations at outposts in 16 Brazilian states. The course was part of the university's effort to teach Brazil its biggest lesson: how to grow its own food...
...only 4% of its land were properly cultivated, Brazil could feed itself. With less than 2% under erratic cultivation, the country last year had to spend nearly $200 million on food imports (chiefly wheat), a needless drain on its foreign-exchange balance. It was just such a lopsided condition that prompted Fernando Costa, minister of agriculture under Dictator Getulio Vargas, to launch the university project in 1941. Shrewdly wangling government funds a little at a time, Costa built the core of a $6,000,000 farm school that is now a model of its kind...
...International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, which has lent $125,100,000 to Latin American countries (Mexico, Brazil, Chile), took another step last week to help carry out President Truman's Point Four development program in South America. The bank announced that a team of nine experts, headed by ex-Brain Truster Lauchlin Currie, would spend three months studying ways to increase Colombia's wealth...
...Chadds Ford, Pa., learning to paint. Hurd married Wyeth's artist daughter Henriette, then moved back to New Mexico, where the Kurds and their three children have taken joyfully to ranch life. Says Hurd, who has gone on painting junkets to Egypt, Hawaii, Nigeria, India, England, Italy, Brazil and Morocco: "It just happens that this part of the planet is where I feel closest to life...