Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...share of U.S. truck exports for 1947 will go to Brazil. Transport-starved Brazilians, who produce a lot of beans and rice but have a hard time getting them to market, hailed the news...
...buying agent for one of the biggest commercial truck deals in automotive history ($100 million for 53,000 trucks) is stocky, tanned Valentim Bouças (pronounced Bo-sas), International Business Machines' vice president in Brazil. He has made a fortune for himself and I.B.M. as a supersalesman and for years he has been an unofficial economic adviser to Brazilian Governments. Few businessmen have as many good contacts in Brazil...
...advertisement in the English-language Brazil Herald brought results. The owner wanted no key money; he did not want to sell any furniture. For a big living room, dining room, bedroom and tiny guest room we thought it a gift...
...Englishman whose way with automobiles approaches genius, will be long remembered by the squads of photographers he maneuvered through London's blazing streets for vantage shots of the blitz. Gallo is a politically indispensable young man who has somehow made himself welcome at the headquarters of all of Brazil's political parties. Abdel, an Upper Egypt man with the Egyptians' fine feeling for humor and sense of the ridiculous, is master of the endless minutiae of publishing and distributing TIME abroad...
Between meetings, such world-famed architects as Harvard's functionalist Walter Gropius, Finland's elfin Alvar Aalto, California's machine-minded Richard Neutra, and Brazil's hot-eyed Marcelo Roberto invaded the bar of the mock-colonial Princeton Inn to swap anecdotes about their worst frustrations and snapshots of their favorite jobs. Princeton itself came in for some sly digs. Philadelphia's George Howe, with an eye to the architecturally mixed but mainly neo-Gothic campus, observed that "collegiate Gothic and collegiate Georgian buildings are neither Gothic nor Georgian nor collegiate, but charnel houses...