Word: paulo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week a pilot plant at São Paulo was ready (except for a chemical solvent which must be obtained from the U.S.) to start converting 50,000 bags of coffee a year into cafelite. About to be built, possibly with Export-Import Bank funds, is a $3,500,000 main plant which will consume 5,000,000 bags of coffee a year, produce 350,000,000 lb. of cafelite. Current world production of plastics powders is 500,000,000-750,000,000 lb. a year...
...Paulo, Brazil...
National City Bank of New York Saó Paulo, Brazil...
With its twin motors ticking over rhythmically, a big Heinkel transport moved into position on Rio de Janeiro's Santos Dumont airfield one day last week, began loading up for its regular Sāo Paulo run. Up the steps walked the passengers: Cuban Minister to Brazil Alfonso Hernández Catá, Rockefeller Foundation's yellow-fever researcher Dr. Evandro Chagas, Norwegian Consul Alexander Stabell Grieg, Sebastiāo Leme Salles, nephew of Rio's Cardinal Archbishop, eleven lesser wigs. Heading into the wind, the VASP airliner roared across the field, lifted easily into a climbing...
Last fortnight Brazilians were treated to a report by their Department of Education as lurid as a story by E. Phillips Oppenheim. Prowling in a Japanese house in Sao Paulo, said the report, educational inspectors discovered a cunningly concealed trap door in the floor. They called police who found a school in session in the cellar, complete with Japanese teachers, Japanese books, Japanese flags, pictures of the Emperor. They also discovered a set of chemistry books explaining how to make bombs, another set on airplane-making. By last month, the Department Announced, police had ferreted out and closed 78 underground...