Word: rios
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...BASCH Rio de Janeiro, Brazil...
...friendly fashion, though not as if nothing had happened. Brazilian bankers gathered in bright, glamorous Rio last week to count the monetary cost of Brazil's ''bloodiest civil war in South American history" (TIME...
Both the Federal Treasury and that of revolting Sao Paulo State started to print money as soon as the war began last July. "We issued more than 50,000,000 milreis," admitted the Paulista bankers. "We issued 400,000,000." confessed Rio's moneymen. But what is a total of 450,000,000 milreis ($32,400,000) between friends...
...Middle Rio Grande Flood-Control District...
...three months of marching and countermarching and a half-dozen major battles. Brazil's civil war ("bloodiest in South American History") ended last week. Rich, coffee-growing Sao Paulo lost its attempt to regain control of the Federal Government. General Bertholdo Klinger, No. 1 rebel, onetime chief of Rio de Janeiro police, laid down his arms. Colonel Herculaneo Carvalho headed a temporary military government for Sao Paulo state. No accurate casualty lists were published on either side. For Brazil as a whole the civil war has had one beneficial result: The blockade of the port of Santos boosted coffee...