Word: rio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made in West German marks, and the rest in Swedish kronor, Swiss francs, and other currencies to allow the country's nationalized electric-power system to buy equipment from European bidders. The specific Uruguayan project: a hydroelectric power plant at Rincón de Biagorria on the Rio Negro complete with transmission and distribution facilities. The new plant will increase Uruguay's power production...
ATOMIC TRAIN will be built by Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corp., third biggest U.S. maker of locomotives. Baldwin has signed contract with Kidde & Co. Inc. to develop a nuclear reactor, will build engine for Denver & Rio Grande Western...
Giant (George Stevens;Warner). Texas, as the saying goes, is a state of mind; and as such, it is not bounded by thirtysix-thirty and the Rio Grande. Indeed, the bestselling 1952 novel by Edna Ferber, on which this picture is based, bellowed from the bookstalls that Texas in modern times is a microcosm of materialism, a noisome social compost of everything that is crass and sick and cruel in American life. Texas bawled like a branded dogie when the book was published, not without reason; if Author...
Buckling under the pressure of Nationalist army leaders, Brazil's President Juscelino Kubitschek last week halted thorium exports to the U.S., canceled the 1955 U.S.-Brazilian agreement to cooperate in exploring Brazil for deposits of radioactive minerals. The U.S. embassy in Rio first learned of the turnabout by reading about it in the local newspapers. Brazil's troublemaking Communists, who could never have brought off such a coup by themselves, whooped with delight. Bannered the Communist daily, Imprensa Popular: HISTORICAL VICTORY
This week, with TIME's biggest map project to date in print, Researcher Dempster is in Rio, attending the 18th International Geographical Union...