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The nerve center of U.S. agricultural economics is the vast, modern Chicago Board of Trade Building. Its massive 41 floors loom as large as agriculture does in the U.S. economy. Ceres, goddess of grain, stands pre-eminent at the very top of the building. In the grain pits below, more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMODITIES: The Court of Ceres | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

Many who come to Anapolis are on their way to the new Government Colonia Agricola Nacional and its embryonic town of Ceres. The Colonia, one of seven set up by Dictator Vargas in 1941, and the most successful, is an experiment in agrarian socialism. To poor men it holds out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Boom In the Backlands | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

In 1945 it was different: the whole rice crop rotted for lack of gasoline to get it to market. The following year Sayão wheedled the Government into shipping an abandoned sugar mill from the coast, set it up in Ceres, and distilled enough alcohol from the colony'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Boom In the Backlands | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

Genial, spherical, Honduran Ambassador Julián Cáceres met another Latin American diplomat at a Washington reception. "I say, Caceres," said the friend, "TIME reports the Honduran opposition is using 'Pinos de Honduras' for a slogan, and your President of Congress maintains that a revolutionary ought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HONDURAS: Mr. Five-by-Five | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

Julian R. Càceres, Honduras' bon vivant Ambassador to the U.S., the conference's Mr. Five-by-Five, graced the occasion. Dr. Caceres is famed for his ardor (but not always for his luck) at international crap-shooting.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: Illusion in Striped Pants | 3/5/1945 | See Source »

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