Word: geraldo
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...when a two-ton truck backed up ... and forced the doors. Everything was seized and destroyed, from lead pencils to printing presses. . . . The mob stormed the building and threw furnishings into the street [and burned them], smashed machinery and turned on water taps on several floors. The offices of Geraldo Rocha, proprietor of A Noite and one of the richest industrialists of Brazil, were entered and the furnishings wrecked. Rocha was not there at the time. Ismael Maia, manager of the paper, however, was subjected to rough treatment...
...Janeiro, Dr. Geraldo Kuhimann, Brazilian botanist, has found that the native sapusaia plant produces an oil of one degree greater optical axis than the best Indian chalmoogra oil, heretofore the chief hope of curing leprosy...