Word: paraiba
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Half a Million Kilowatts. In 1953, when the first generators are to be installed, the Paulo Afonso plant will produce 120,000 kw. for the five neighboring states of Pernambuco, Alagoas, Paraiba, Sergipe and Baia, doubling their present supply. When all nine of the planned generators are in operation, the output will be approximately i½ times as much as Wilson Dam at Muscle Shoals...
...Soares has his answers: Volta Redonda's location, halfway between the port of Rio and industrial Sao Paulo, is ideal for distribution. The Paraiba River furnishes an ideal water supply. Limestone (a necessity in steelmaking) is mined near by. In time, Soares expects subsidiary industries to grow up around Volta Redonda, turn it into a Brazilian Pittsburgh...
...planeload of prospectors had landed on a wilderness airstrip near the chief's village. With necklaces they had lured his pretty daughter into their plane, flown her away. The Chief had set out on foot in search of his kidnapped daughter. Months later, in the distant State of Paraiba, he had found the princess. Rondon, advised of the reunion, had Chief and princess flown back to the grateful tribe...