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...coffee growers and cattlemen. Bradesco endeared itself to its distant customers by such services as providing them with needed supplies and taking care of their bills and taxes in the capital. As the interior developed, Bradesco thrived and helped open more territories for cultivation, notably in the north of Parana state, now Brazil's richest coffee-producing area. "The sky is the limit," says Aguiar. "Now we have many more resources. We can do much more...
...million tire plant. Brazil is building the new $25 million, 15-story Panorama Palace Hotel on a Rio hill side overlooking Copacabana Beach; it will be Latin America's largest and lushest hotel. The massive 4,000,000-kw. Urubupunga Project going up on the Parana River in south-central Brazil, one of the largest hydroelectric complexes in the world, is part of a program to push Brazil's hydroelectric capacity from the current' 8,150,000 kw. to twelve million kw. by 1970, compared with the U.S.'s present 45 million...
Half a dozen other major projects are under way, from the Boa Esperanca Dam to three new dams in the frontier state of Mato Grosso. Brazilians dream of harnessing the raging Parana River, creating a complex twelve times as big as Egypt's Aswan Dam. The Parana's potential: 25 million...
...tender sugar shoots and crush them. Even the world's longtime sugar producers are working to fatten yields. Brazil, where sugar has grown in the north for 400 years, is converting many unprofitable coffee areas to sugar in the southern states of Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and Parana, and Mexico has built 71 mills, including the world's biggest one at Vera Cruz. The Philippine Republic has turned so much land to sugar production that a rice shortage has developed...
Only 22 hours after Paraná's Governor Ney Braga requested U.S. aid, three planeloads of food, medicine, tents, fire fighters, doctors and nurses landed in Parana. A U.S. Navy Task Force in Rio on maneuvers provided gauze, cotton and medication for fire victims. Top U.S. fire-control experts flew in immediately, including Merle Lowden, chief of the fire-control division of the U.S. Forest Service. Peace Corps doctors and nurses opened a 100-bed hospital in Tibagi, where U.S. officials began doling out supplies. Homeless and penniless the refugees may be, says a Brazilian in Tibagi, "but most...