Word: rio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That is how a young Rio Grande riverboat captain named Richard King braced a stranger in Brownsville, Texas in 1850. "Back in Owensboro, Kentucky, sir," replied the stranger, "I was treasurer of the Methodist Church. I raised the money to build a new church house. Well-that church was never built-and here I am in Texas. Now, Captain King, which category do you come under...
...made his exit from New York by stowing away on a Gulf-bound sailing ship, and the captain taught the youngster his trade. During the rugged days on the Southwest border, after Old Fuss-and-Feathers Scott and Old Rough-and-Ready Taylor shoved Mexico back across the Rio Grande, Captain King and his partner, Mifflin Kenedy, made themselves a big stake by transporting cargo upriver by boat as far as skilled captains and sound bottoms could navigate. In 1852 King made an overland trip from Brownsville to Corpus Christi, was fascinated by the lush grass where the Wild Horse...
Last week in Rio de Janeiro more than a hundred experts-some top medical men, some ethnologists and botanists-got together for the world's first International Symposium on Curare and Curare-like Agents. For in the meantime, curare has passed from the jungles, where it is an agent of death, to the most aseptic operating theaters, where it is an important aid in many a life-saving operation...
...toughest town in Brazil is grimy, industrial Caxias (pop. 136,000), on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. Its political boss is Federal Deputy Tenorio Caval-canti, who sports a beard, a flowing cape, a revolver, a bulletproof vest and 47 wounds from various shooting scrapes. He owns real estate, a newspaper and a steel-gated house, and he has boasted that he could hold it against a siege. One morning last week while Tenorio was away, 200 troops rolled up in armored trucks, with bazookas and machine guns, and cracked the fort without a shot. Tenorio's henchmen...
...Rio Tinto, Falconbridge Nickel Mines and Iron Ore of Canada...