Word: rio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...situation was tailor-made for the Reds: all over the country, the workers, galled by remorseless price rises, were in a rebellious mood. On Rio's waterfront, dockers by the droves left the government-controlled union, went over to a militant new independent outfit; they refused to do any overtime work until the government started paying bonuses promised last December. Merchant marine officers threatened a strike that would tie up the government's two shipping lines. Even doctors at government institutions in Rio staged a one-day strike. Things were at their worst in São Paulo...
...Paulo's clerks and factory workers was the racking pressure of ten years of rising prices. Despite all the government's promises, food costs were 27% more than a year ago; within the week, the price of rice had nearly doubled because the neighboring state of Rio Grande do Sul had suddenly embargoed shipments to avert a shortage of its own. Electric-power rationing caused by drought had shortened factory hours and thus cut take-home...
...years since the Brazilian town of Batatais, 300 miles northwest of Rio, had been formally elevated to the official and honorable category of village, and Bishop Luiz Mousinho marked the anniversary last week by blessing 14 brilliant religious murals in the town's new Roman Catholic church. Surprisingly, the paintings were the work of an avowed freethinker and Communist. But the 9,850 townspeople would have no other artist than Candido Portinari, 49, who rose from a lowly birthplace near Batatais to become Brazil's best painter and the area's most admired native...
Newt Oliver, volatile basketball coach of tiny Rio Grande College, yesterday challenged Yale University to a game next year to prove the prowess of his scoring star, Clarence Bevo Francis...
...Hobson thinks Bevo's scoring record is ridiculous, why doesn't he schedule Rio Grande for next season and I'll let him look my boy over," said Oliver...