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Corn-Hog Program. Henry Wallace once told him that an acre of Iowa hybrid corn yielded far more than ordinary corn, and Nelson Rockefeller never forgot. This week he was to sign his first commercial contract with Brazil's only hybrid producer, Agroceres Limited of São Paulo. It would call for a minority investment of $200,000, and seed loans to the company, which would sell hybrid seed corn to farmers, and to other companies that wished to start production...
...growing venture was already under way. Last month Rockefeller sent two experts to Brazil with 250,000 cubic centimeters of vaccine to combat hog cholera. Rockefeller will subscribe $200,000 to the project, which will probably include a demonstration farm near São Paulo, but Brazilians will be invited to put up most of the money...
...invaders stirred Rio to action. With the flying hordes momentarily stalled by rain and cool weather about 90 miles south of Sao Paulo's great coffee plantations, the first act of Brazil's new Chamber of Deputies was to vote an emergency $97,380 for grasshopper defense. Last week a Brazilian military plane headed south from the U.S. with a two-ton load of flamethrowers provided in a hurry by the U.S. Gammexane, modern man's best bet in such warfare, was unobtainable, and the Biological Institute of Sao Paulo had to concoct its own insecticide right...
...Soares has his answers: Volta Redonda's location, halfway between the port of Rio and industrial Sao Paulo, is ideal for distribution. The Paraiba River furnishes an ideal water supply. Limestone (a necessity in steelmaking) is mined near by. In time, Soares expects subsidiary industries to grow up around Volta Redonda, turn it into a Brazilian Pittsburgh...
...Dutra Government is working hard to mend matters. Last week, experts in London and Sāo Paulo were deep in dicker over modernization plans for half a dozen British-owned railways and tram lines. Transport Minister Edmundo de Macedo Scares, back from. Washington, claimed promise of a $50,000,000 credit for new equipment and highways...