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...winter's elections, he sold the Communist Tribuna Popular in Rio's streets. It did not raise his stock with conservative President Eu rico Gaspar Dutra. Last week, Dutra was reported to have canceled a contract recently awarded to Niemeyer for a great aeronautical center near Sao Paulo-an air city with hangars, workshops, hospital, stadia, schools and apartments...
...dense acres. Before the job is finished, the section known as Praia Pernambuco, a few minutes by ferry from Santos, will have an airfield, a country club, a polo field, a beach club, a fishing club, hotels, shops, and some 500 houses, all furnished with the latest gadgets. Sao Paulo industrial interests, which are putting up millions to construct this sportsman's dream, expect it to be one of the top resort centers in the hemisphere...
Guarujá is his first venture in South America, but it will not be his last. Raymond Loewy Associates recently opened an office in Sao Paulo (the others, aside from headquarters in a Manhattan skyscraper, are in South Bend, Chicago, Los Angeles). Loewy is now working on a deal to build an entire industrial town, for the same Sao Paulo interests. Next step is to reopen its office in London, from which the firm plans to expand abroad. Most of his ideas, says Loewy, are intended "not for Park Avenue but for the miner's wife," are thus marketable...
...Brazilian Government is not going into the trucking business. Once assembled in Ford and General Motors plants at Sao Paulo (at the rate of 160 a day), the trucks will be sold at ceiling prices to any ready buyer...
...wheedled the Government into shipping an abandoned sugar mill from the coast, set it up in Ceres, and distilled enough alcohol from the colony's sugar to keep the trucks on the road to Anapolis. So in 1946 the colony marketed 160,000 bags of rice in Sao Paulo at prices ranging from...