Word: quitandinha
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...Brazilian Government thought it had just the place for the oft-postponed Inter-American Conference, now scheduled for next month. The place was Quitandinha, the plush resort hotel just outside the summer capital of Petropolis. But the Government had hardly announced its choice when foreign correspondents let out a loud squawk...
...correspondents well knew that the hotel, with its three bars and five dining rooms, its two swimming pools and its comfortable if chichi rooms, is the best in Brazil. What they were squawking about were the communications between Quitandinha and Rio. They were bad. Only six telephone lines run to Rio. Besides, the correspondents saw no chance of finding quarters in the hotel's 350 rooms. They would have to commute three miles to Petropolis or 40-odd miles...
Phony Facade. The new Brazilian enthusiasm is industrialization. But the $110 million Volta Redonda steel plant, five years abuilding, designed to make Brazil self-sufficient in steel, has yet to be inaugurated. The $13 million Quitandinha Hotel, which was to attract all the world's wealthy tourists, is virtually empty. The National Motor Factory-one of the world's most modern-has produced by itself one airplane engine in three years of operation. There is a huge movie studio outside São Paulo, brand-new and abandoned...
...Petropolis the fabulous, $13,000,000 Quitandinha ("little fruit stand"), most advertised spa and hotel in South America, faced failure. Suave Joaquim Rolla, Brazil's gambling king and owner of the place, walked in on Treasury Minister Carlos Luz and announced: "Well, I am giving you Quitandinha...
...gambling palaces. He got such a name for efficiency that ex-President Getulio Vargas once asked him to run Brazil's $90-million steel plant (now abuilding). Rolla declined, preferring to build, near the summer capital of Petropolis, the ultimate in hotel-resort-casinos, $10-million, castle-like Quitandinha, where Brazil's inflation-rich flip colored chips onto the felt and frolic on the dance floor...