Word: paulista
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West. The key to such phenomenal expansion is the individual and collective drive of the Paulistas, who since they built their city on a broad shelf nearly 3,000 ft. above sea level, escape the enervating climate of the tropical lowlands. Drawn by good land and climate, nearly 1,000,000 European immigrants, mainly Italian, surged into Sáo Paulo state at the turn of the century, just when the city was ready to get up & go. Out of the melting pot of older Brazilians, Italians, Portuguese, Spaniards, Germans, Levantines and Japanese emerged the Paulista, cockily claiming a spiritual...