Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tackling the mess headon, Dantas, Goulart and Economic Planner Celso Furtado (architect of the ambitious development plan for Brazil's blighted northeast elbow) ended costly subsidies on imports of wheat and petroleum, even though high-test gasoline prices immediately doubled. They raised the fare on Rio commuter trains from 3 mills to 1½?. They limited bank credit, froze steel prices at the government-owned Volta Redonda plant, and persuaded auto, truck and clothing manufacturers to hold the price line. Goulart, who rose to power as labor's pal, even promised a group of industrialists that he would...
...miles northeast of Saigon their car ran into a string of autos stalled in the center of the road. Around them swarmed some 20 grim-faced Vietnamese wearing rubber sandals, tree branches thrust into their belts for camouflage, and light field packs over their black peasant garb. "We were ordered out of the car," said Mrs. Jacobsen, "but we weren't frightened. We thought we would be on our way in a few minutes." This was not to be, for the hapless missionary families were caught in a roadblock of the Communist Viet Cong...
...lunch line. Each day in Mexico, more than 1,000,000 schoolchildren receive the donated food. "The lunch is the only reason a lot of parents send their children to school," says Djalma Maranhão, mayor of Natal in Brazil's impoverished Northeast. In Brazil alone, some 3 billion glasses of milk a year are distributed in 25,000 public schools. At the end of a three-month period, reports one Brazilian teacher, most of her pupils gained at least five pounds. With plenty of surplus food where this came from, Food for Peace Director Richard W. Reuter...
JAMES W. AUSTIN President & Chairman of the Board Northeast Airlines Boston...
...TIME should have said that Northeast canceled its most ambitious package-tour idea. Since the strike cut off advertising, the plan...