Word: rio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rio de Janeiro. "The war jumped the newsstand sale of U.S. publications 25% here. Brazilians want to know what the score is. Americans want to know what isn't told in the communiques: How high are prices going? What about the draft? Should they cable home and order a new car? Should they offer their services to the U.S. war effort...
Singapore Trader. Without waiting for a contract, Pan American World Airways called in Douglas DC-4 Clippers from London and Buenos Aires, summoned experienced crews from Calcutta and Rio de Janeiro, rehired 104 pilots it had laid off in January. Seaboard & Western, a nonscheduled cargo line, loaded 25 Lockheed Aircraft Service maintenance men in its DC-4 Singapore Trader, flew them to California. July 3, eight days after the North Koreans crossed the 38th parallel, the Singapore Trader took off from Fairfield-Suisun on the Tokyo lift's first official flight. At the controls was Captain Francis A. Warner...
...Uruguay's soccer team, which won the World Championship in Rio de Janeiro in an upset victory over Brazil, 2-1, before 170,000 torcedores...
...fortnight ago some upstart Americans, from a country which usually yawns at the game, beat the British, 1-0, in one of the international soccer matches at Rio de Janeiro. Last week, when Spain beat them again and ousted them from the World Championships, the London Daily Herald took note of it with a black-bordered, formal funeral announcement on the front page...
...affectionate remembrance of English football, which died at Rio on July 2, 1950. Deeply lamented by a large circle of narrowing friends and acquaintances...