Word: janeiro
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Only one major South American telephone company remains outside I. T. & T. control. Canadian-owned, this company operates from Rio de Janeiro, is the largest on the continent. It would be rash to forecast the plans of silent Col. Sosthenes Behn. But no one would be surprised if the next purchase by I. T. & T. carried its network into Rio de Janeiro...
Cheers turned to tears when Brazil's Alberto Santos-Dumont debarked at Rio de Janeiro last week. All good Brazilians believe that he invented the airplane before the Wrights. And, because the U. S. this month is honoring the Wrights' 25th anniversary of flight (to which Brazil is sending no official representative), those good Brazilians organized a celebration of their own. They insisted that Senhor Santos-Dumont quit his placid retirement in Paris for a gala demonstration in Rio. He has lived in France some 30 years, earning aeronautical reputation as a pioneer builder & flyer of dirigibles...
...days out, the complete Hoover itinerary was announced (see Map, p. 18) -Amapala (Honduras), La Union (Salvador), Corinto (Nicaragua), Puntarenas (Costa Rica), Guayaquil (Ecuador), Callao and Lima (Peru), Valparaiso, Santiago and Los Andes (Chile), Mendoza and Buenos Aires (Argentina), Montevideo (Uraguay), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Havana, perhaps Mexico, perhaps Texas, to Florida...
...Janeiro workmen last week were hanging bunting and raising flags; an official reception committee was hiring bands, inviting speakers, preparing lands; the three aviation companies of the city were garnishing their planes-all to welcome home this week Alberto Santos-Dumont, whom all good Brazilians claim invented the first flying machine...
Addressing the Society, famed Obstetrician Dr. Arnaldo de Moraes said: "One out of every 133 mothers in Rio de Janeiro die in childbirth. True this compares favorably with the mortality of soldiers, in the Great War, when one out of every 50 died. But gentlemen!-we must make it possible for Brazilian mothers to march joyously to maternity, without the forebodings of soldiers marching to battle...