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...Brazilian consumer is also complaining-about rising prices and higher taxes. Meantime, the fight against inflation has so reduced the supply of money and credit that a recession has hit many industries. Some 50,000 workers have been laid off in the Sao Paulo area alone this year. Willys-Overland do Brasil shut down production, has inventory enough to last six months without making another Aero-Willys...
...love with inflation and are ready to go along. "Inflation," says São Paulo Industrialist Paulo Quartim Barbosa, "is an illusion of grandeur and a guarantee of catastrophe." As for foreign investors, they were busy dusting off all the expansion plans pigeonholed while Goulart was in power. Willys-Overland do Brasil, the country's largest automaker, plans a $30 million expansion, Volkswagen is investing another $21 million in its São Paulo plant, Argentina's Bunge & Born is ready to go ahead with a $16 million superphosphates plant, Columbia Ribbon & Carbon plans...
...decided to begin the rest of our travels by following an overland route to Holyoke Center, where we would inspect the data board, then to travel underground to the river, cross the Charles inside the Weeks Bridge, and finally come up to the surface at the Business School operating station in McCulloch Hall. Mr. Kingsbury wished us well and placed us in the care of another Tunnel engineer, this time a South Yard...
...when the Albatross spewed her tardy commuters into Wall Street, 45 minutes late. All declared themselves staunchly in favor of hydrofoil commuting, though it takes nearly as long and costs approximately three times more ($100 a month) than commuting from Port Washington via the overland route on the Long Island Rail Road. Three days afterward, however, the heroic Albatross was late again, when her engine conked out for ten minutes...
...compressor and then rush on to whirl another turbine that drives a shaft. Turbines in their simplest form have major disadvantages, but where these are not of prime importance, they are already hard at work. They run standby generators in telephone exchanges, drive an Army 13-car overland troop-supply train and power Navy landing craft, Marine hydrofoil boats and Air Force helicopters...