Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...important is the right kind of crystal that the Signal Corps last month set up a special inspection laboratory in Rio de Janeiro, and plans for the mechanization of quartz mining are well under way. The sentiments of the Signal Corps are visible in a big poster which hangs in many a cutting room. It reads, "GIVE US THE CRYSTALS AND WE'LL PUT THE ... -------ON THE RUN." In radio code the dots & dashes spell...
...circulation of TIME AIR EXPRESS is now close to 40,000-and if you have any friends south of the Rio Grande they have probably told you it is read by practically every American business man, diplomatic representative and Army & Navy officer down there-and by a very large percentage of the most important Latin Americans as well. Other U.S. magazines and newspapers arrive anywhere from two weeks to three months late, and so we feel TIME AIR EXPRESS has a more important job than ever today in keeping Americans and their friends throughout Latin America in touch with what...
...York City export business went broke (he backed the wrong general in Mexico's Madero revolution of 1910), they left school to learn the export business themselves. By 1921 they knew enough to form their own outfit, Miranda Bros. Inc., prospered by selling things below the Rio Grande. First it was automobiles. Then they became minor-league merchants of death, unloading leftover U.S. war supplies in Latin America and in the Balkans. The leftovers ran out. So the Mirandas formed their own manufacturing company, American Armament Corp., to make light artillery and ammunition...
...Alone in all U.S. industry, the rails made a spectacular showing. Lumbering New York Central almost quadrupled its 1942 earnings, hit $16,100,000- a 14-year high. The wobbly Rock Island did likewise, pushing its net up to $8,800,000 (v. $2,300,000 last year); Denver & Rio Grande jumped from $463,000 to $2,474,000; Great Northern turned a $92,000 deficit into a juicy $1,991,000 profit. Of 22 roads to report last week, not one showed a drop in earnings...
Also to be set up at Rio is a fully equipped laboratory. Aided by the flood of technical research from the world-famed G.E. laboratory at Schenectady, Rio engineers will devote their main study to the possibilities of using more Brazilian raw materials in the manufacture of electrical equipment...