Word: rio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...WALTER WHITE Rio Linda, Calif...
...Brazil, the chief rebels were Major Haroldo Coimbra Veloso and Captain José Lameirão, a pair of air force officers. Commandeering a Beechcraft, they flew from Rio to a set of airstrips well up the Amazon, took the strips by pulling rank on the noncoms in command, and signed up some recruits. Biggest prize: Santarem, a town (pop. 15,000) and airport on the river. The rebels kept pursuing planes from landing by strewing logs and oil drums on the strips; at length the government, more embarrassed than harassed, loaded 700 soldiers aboard a river boat...
...Gale B. ("Gus") Aydelott, 41, moved from executive vice president to president of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad, succeeding Wilson McCarthy, who died two weeks ago at the age of 71. A lifelong railroader, Aydelott signed on as a track laborer for the Rio Grande in 1936, shortly after graduating from the University of Illinois with a degree in transportation. He moved up fast, learned his business as an assistant gang foreman, track inspector, engineering assistant and trainmaster. He changed to a white collar in 1943, was made vice president and general manager in 1954, executive vice president last...
LUFTHANSA, the West German airline reborn less than a year ago, is growing up fast. This spring Lufthansa will expand its 66 intercontinental flights weekly to 488, double schedules to England, France and Spain, switch from five-weekly to daily New York service, add Rio and Buenos Aires to its routes...
Died. Wilson McCarthy, 71, president of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad since 1947, Western director of the old Reconstruction Finance Corp. (1932-34); in Salt Lake City...