Word: rio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, with a few new grey flecks in his crewcut hair, Baby was in Rio for a relaxing round of cabaret crawls and pre-carnival binges. Lounging in his suite at the Copacabana Palace, he boasted that business was better than ever now that the experts were gone. Actually, by slicing off a couple of his unprofitable enterprises, the U.S. advisers had done him a real service. His assets, he figured, were now higher than they had ever been. Said Baby: "1949 was a good year for me. Gross sales won't be far from $25 million when...
...accountant was a company veteran (14 years) named Daniel Cardoso Pimenta. Along with a scion of one of Rio's best families, Chief Cashier Nelson de Almeida Cardoso, he was charged with having embezzled the funds through a tricky system of interoffice bookkeeping entries. Just after auditors spotted the shortage in a routine year-end checkup, Accountant Pimenta disappeared. Cashier Cardoso betook himself to a Rio hospital where he was reported resting under the care of a staff physician, his brother...
...Sierra Madre, he opened a new $3,000,000 food-processing plant. Square, squat and red brick, it looked much the same as any other plant from the outside. But inside, 5,000 opening-day visitors last week found the most mechanized food factory south of the Rio Grande...
Necessary Proof. In Rio de Janeiro, Carlos dos Santos, arrested during a routine roundup of pickpockets, was about to be released when the station detective rearrested him because he discovered that his wallet had been pinched during the questioning...
...Caribbean echoed to plots, shots and abortive invasions, the Organization of American States and its predecessor, the Pan American Union, had tried one stopgap measure after another to calm the situation. Last week the O.A.S. stopped stalling. In one brisk, four-hour session, its council: 1) invoked the Rio treaty of inter-American defense, 2) ordered a showdown investigation of the whole Caribbean mess, and 3) prepared to call a meeting of all 21 American foreign ministers, if necessary...