Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Underdeveloped country like hell!" proclaimed posters plastered all over Sāo Paulo last week. Brazil's sixth national automobile show was in full swing in the city's exhibition hall at Parque Ibirapuera, and auto manufacturers were making the most of their opportunity to trumpet that in one decade Brazil has managed to develop a viable motor industry. As recently as the 1950s, Brazil spent $140 million a year to import autos; last year, because of increased domestic production and higher tariffs, imports amounted to $3,000,000. This year the country's carmakers will turn...
...Volkswagen, manufactured in Sāo Paulo, has long been Brazil's most popular car, but the automaniacal middle class is already trading up. At this year's show, Volkswagen introduced a four-door 1600 model sedan that will sell for $3,733 v. $2,666 for "the beetle." Similarly, General Motors showed off the Opala, its first made-in-Brazil sedan, a cross between the U.S. Chevy Nova and the German Opel. Depending on the model, it will sell for $4,250 to $4.800-about twice as much as a similar car made in the U.S., where...
Service Stations Too. Almost inevitably, the auto boom has brought problems along with progress. Petrobras, the state oil company, has long hoped to supply all of Brazil's petroleum from domestic wells. But the rising statistics of auto ownership obliges Brazil to import about 50% of its annual supply. The $260 million oil bill that car drivers run up more than offsets the savings on auto imports. As such, it is a primary factor in the country's painful balance-of-payments deficit...
...sooner had the lady arrived in Recife, Brazil, than she was caught in a tangle of traffic. Then, in the middle of a reception at the Palace of Las Princessas, the lights blew and pitched the whole place into darkness. But Queen Elizabeth II, poised as always, went right on receiving guests while servants held glowing candelabra behind her. It was the first visit ever to South America by a reigning British monarch, and the Queen plans ten days in Brazil, another seven in Chile before returning home. Officially, she is returning a state visit to Britain three years...
...Brazil 139,576* Austria...