Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Outback, the collision with civilization has turned many aborigines into drunkards. By 10 a.m. the main street of Alice Springs is littered with squatting aborigines waiting for the bars to open, their alcoholism bankrolled by government dole. Only a few years ago, the Cinta Largas tribe in Brazil was bombed and strafed from the air, and the survivors gunned down by hunting parties, all to permit loggers to clear the tribe's lands...
...Brazil the next stop...
Asked why the Shah decided to go to the Bahamas, an aide retorted, "Where else can he go?" A spokesman for the Bahamian government insisted that the monarch was there only for a "short visit." There were rumors that the Shah was considering Brazil as his next stop. Meanwhile, he could console himself with the thought that the Bahamas for centuries have been a refuge for exiles-including, most recently, the late Howard Hughes and fugitive Financier Robert Vesco...
Even with present technology, gasohol could eventually become competitive with other fuels if gasoline prices continue to rise. In Brazil, where regular gas costs $1.50 per gal., the government has launched a strong program to have all motorists use gasohol by 1982. Skepticism about gasohol still exists at the top levels of the DOE. A yet-to-be-released department study estimates that, under existing conditions, gasohol will account for less than 1% of the motor fuel consumed in the U.S. by 1985. That could change as distilling technology improves and oil prices rise. As one DOE official notes: "Right...
...airworthiness. Unsympathetic to the Nazi regime, Focke was removed from his company (Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau AG) before World War II and thus had no part in the production of the firm's famed fighter-bomber, the FW-190. He continued to design aircraft in France, Britain and Brazil, returning to his native country...