Word: rio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Petrobrás, Brazil's government-owned oil monopoly, asked foreign oil companies late last year to submit bids for supplying 90,000 bbl. of crude oil a day to a projected new refinery in Rio de Janeiro, there was a string attached. In passing, Petrobrás suggested that the oil companies might like to offer financial aid towards construction of the refinery. Last week word came from Brazil that Petrobrás had accepted a Texas Co. offer to supply 15,000 bbl. of crude a day and to make a fiveyear, 6% loan...
Since then, Raisz has taught at Clark University, the University of Virginia, and in Rio de Janiero ("I couldn't speak Portuguese--only Spanish--but we got along fine."). This spring he will go to the University of Florda to teach cartography and to work on a state atlas. Soon he intends to do a landform map of Mexico, as well...
...turbine locomotive that burns a cheap grade of fuel oil, and can haul maximum-length freights (120 cars) at 65 m.p.h. Next year the Union Pacific will try out a newer model, which it hopes will burn an even cheaper fuel-powdered coal. Such roads as the Denver & Rio Grande Western are looking even farther ahead. Its staff of scientists has already developed an atomic signal lamp that will stay bright for twelve years by using radioactive isotopes, is also at work on an atomic-powered locomotive...
...Sliced into the huge stocks of Government-held farm surpluses by negotiating an agreement with Brazil under which 1) the U.S. will sell the Rio government $138,700,000 worth of the surplus, most of it ($111,000,000) in wheat; 2) Brazil will make payment in nondollar currency, i.e., cruzeiros; and 3) the U.S. in turn (under the terms of the 1954 Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act) will use the currency to finance economic and other development projects in Brazil...
...from Del Rio (Robert L. Jacks; United Artists) is a conventional western with a more or less conventional moral, viz., if you try to run a gunman out of town when the wrist of your gun hand is broken, be sure the scriptwriter is on your side. In this one, Actor Quinn plays a gunman who arrives in a one-saloon town and, in a remarkably short time, ventilates three bad men. The good citizens promptly name him sheriff, presumably on the theory that it is better to have a bad sheriff who can shoot fast than a good...