Word: paulo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the auspices of the Brazilian Government and Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha, Winchell whirled about the country. He talked with big & little Brazilians, to U.S. officers and men stationed in Brazil. In São Paulo's big industrial plants he made brief translated talks to the workers. His biggest official hit was at a press banquet in Rio when he raised his cup of coffee to the level of his Brazilian host's cup and gave this toast: "Never above you-never beneath you-always beside you." The Brazilian press adopted the toast as a slogan...
...ultimate goal of all this activity seemed to be the same as General Bruno's efforts: an army which would operate within the country while the Axis invaded from across the South Atlantic. Spy-busting Major Olinto Franca Almeida y Sa,* Police Chief of the State of Sao Paulo, said the Nazi plan was to invade by air last May. The plot was uncovered when the police intercepted a Nazi agent's message. Only the fact that Russia upset the German timetable, guessed the Major, prevented the plot from being carried...
...infuriating story" is told in FORTUNE for January: the futile effort of Drury A. McMillen, Yale graduate, engineer and businessman of São Paulo, Brazil, to persuade the U.S. armed forces to adopt a new, simplified system of aviation navigation...
...gasoline. Though approximately 70% of all shipping from the U.S. to South America's east coast is carrying coal as cargo, Brazil gets only a fraction of her needs. Tankers seldom visit her ports. No private automobiles ride the once busy streets of Rio and Sao Paulo, bus schedules have been slashed, many vital rail services are cut by half, other routes suspended. Even wood-burning steamers plowing the muddy Amazon River to Manaos are stopped: the woodcutters have slipped into the jungles to gather rubber for better pay. In Andean-wrinkled Chile and Peru where railroads...
Reason for this turnabout: it is safer and easier to ship coffee 1,600 miles from Colombia to New Orleans than 6,000 miles up the Atlantic from Rio. But Brazil will not be the loser. Brazilian bigwigs in São Paulo last week announced that the Good-Neighborly U.S. would buy up all Brazilian coffee not shipped by September's end. That will give Brazil a credit of over $25,000,000 on U.S. banks and give the U.S. a credit of perhaps 2,000,000 bags in Brazilian warehouses...