Word: rio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drift was continental. Luxury shops in Rio's narrow Rua do Ouvidor featured Czech china, Danish porcelain, Italian pottery. British cars rolled along the boulevards. In Argentina, U.S. goods had all but disappeared. Across the river in Uruguay, the trade trend to Europe also ran strongly. There, where three years ago the U.S. supplied almost half of all imported goods, the British and the Germans had seized the lead. By the terms of a January agreement, Uruguay will buy $70 million worth of goods, perhaps one-third of its 1950 needs, from Germany. The Uruguayan deal was the biggest...
...four times its prewar size and a valuable prize indeed. "Our European competitors," griped a U.S. businessman in Mexico City last week, "are simply using U.S. taxpayers' money to compete in U.S. markets." Like it or not, U.S. citizens would have to accept competitive individual defeats in Rio or the Colombian canebrakes as victories in fact for the U.S. program of rebuilding democracy's.ramparts in Western Europe...
Arriving in Rio de Janeiro for this week's regional conference of U.S. diplomats in South America, State Department Counselor George Kennan and Assistant Secretary of State Edward Miller received greetings in the Stalinist manner from the Communist newspaper Tribuna Popular. With a nice feeling for rank and function, Tribuna called Kennan "an international bandit," Miller "a male Mata Hari...
Swinging round to Rio for next week's conference of U.S. ambassadors in South America, Assistant Secretary of State Edward G. Miller Jr. dropped in for a visit with Juan Peron. It was no mere card-dropping call. Four years after Peron's election, getting along with the Argentine President was still the U.S.'s touchiest hemispheric problem, and Miller had come armed with a bulging briefcase. With Peron facing serious economic troubles at home and abroad, Miller thought that Argentina's President might welcome the chance to talk business...
...four days and nights, Rio de Janeiro rocked to the torrid music of samba bands, the tin-shop crash of colliding motor cars, the laughter and shrieks of costumed revelers. Cariocas agreed that it was the greatest carnival they had ever celebrated...