Word: paulo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wish I had space to tell you the special steps we had to take to get the full Invasion story into our editions printed in Mexico City, BogÓta, SÃo Paulo, Buenos Aires, Stockholm, Cairo, Teheran, New Delhi, Sydney, and Honolulu and still get the issue out on time. It is a story of wirephoto, of plane delivery, of special teletype hookups and of wonderful cooperation from many friends of TIME-a story that fills seven pages double-spaced...
Native capital is abundant, adventuresome. When Panair do Brazil, subsidiary of Pan American Airways, put a new issue of stock on sale in São Paulo, hundreds of air-minded Brazilians stood all night in the street waiting to buy the certificates...
...periodically distorts his face. His kindly, scholarly bearing does not match his violent past or his present push. Brazilians tell some cynical tales about his appetite for money, and they remember his successful but intensely unpopular term as Federal Interventor in the rebellious State of São Paulo. He plays the piano beautifully, has almost memorized his favorite book, The Arabian Nights. He speaks English, is pro-American, has a son in the U.S. Air Forces. Among his pals: Sumner Welles and Carmen Miranda...
...Axis agents laid a trap for her on a South Atlantic crossing with 10,000 U.S. troops aboard. Submarines were waiting, spies in São Paulo, Brazil were prepared to flash word of her exact course when their secret radio station was discovered just in time. The Italian Government was so sure that the trap would work that Rome announced her sinking on the appointed...
...smoky, industrial São Paulo, the Chicago of South America, divine protection was invoked last week for a band of 100 men. A Brazilian flag was blessed at Mass and the 100 shoved off for the wilder ness. Northwest toward an uncharted, un spoiled piece of the earth went flashy Colonel Flaviano Mattos Vanique with 30 technical experts, 70 roustabouts and science's most modern equipment. Their object: to open for colonization the Mato Grosso (Big Woods) province, half again the size of Texas; to map topography, explore for gold, diamonds, rubber and platinum...