Word: cruzeiro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wants to know how a man gets along with his neighbors,, how his crops are coming, he calls by first name many of the 15,000 settlers in the Colonia. Last week he was in Rio seeking money for the Colonia, for the Government had paid not a cruzeiro of the funds appropriated for it for this year...
...crack, French-born Photographer Jean Manzon, Barreto Pinto had posed in shorts, mugged in the bathtub, pranced weirdly on the beach. When the pictures were printed in the weekly O Cruzeiro, they were a sensation; copies of the 15? magazine sold...
...were the atabrine, antiseptics and insecticides that the U.S.-and Brazilian-sponsored SESP (Servigo Especial da Saude Publica) now flies to 32 backwoods outposts, from, the Amazon to the Mato Grosso. Crowds watched the plane come in. In other "lost towns" other crowds watched the landings of planes of Cruzeiro, Vasp, Aerovias do Brasil...
...boom had been touched off last fall when Aerophile U.S. Ambassador Adolf A. Berle Jr. fetched two dozen brand-new U.S. Army C-47s (military version of the Douglas DC-3) south to be sold as surplus property. Most of the planes went to big carriers like Cruzeiro and Panair, whose routes along the coast and across the heartland cover three times the mileage of any U.S. domestic airline. But others were bought by rugged individualists who quickly formed companies and sold stock, sometimes before getting franchises...
...Brasil, Pan American's local subsidiary and the first non-U.S. company to get a Constellation, flew one from Rio to Casablanca to scout a route to London and Paris for the first Brazilian overseas airline. But Panair President Paulo Sampaio had only a brief headstart on Cruzeiro, whose DC-4s will be flying the Atlantic before summer...