Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First step in the Brazilian expansion program is a $1,000,000 addition to the, electric-light-bulb plant at Rio de Janeiro. Erected in 1920, the Rio plant is large and modern, employs 2,000 people, has many Brazilians in key positions. Native engineers have been brought to the U.S., sent to college, and given post-graduate work in G.E. plants. Under these trained technicians, bulb sales at Rio are expected to jump from $15 to $40 million annually when the new building is completed this year...
...they returned; they had a job to do. The floor of the Rio Grande River was rising each year, ruining drainage in thousands of acres of New Mexico farm land. Until the river was harnessed, there was the danger of flood. Something had to be done-probably a new series of dams. The soundings might have to go through the Pueblo's sacred places. There was no helping it, said the white man. And if the dams flooded the 13,000 Pueblo Indians out of their ancient homes, there was no helping that...
Last week the white man still persuaded and threatened. The Indians watched the snow melt on the peaks of the Sangre de Cristo range, watched the water trickle down into the sun-drenched Rio Grande valley, watched the locoweed purple and the sand lizards take shade in clumps of wild four-o'clock. They and their ancestors had seen spring come to the Pueblos thus for countless generations...
...Rio de Janeiro newspaper O Globo next day headlined: "BRAZIL'S IMMEDIATE AND DIRECT PARTICIPATION IN THE WAR!" Last week O Globo asserted that Brazil actually would send an expeditionary force and that War Minister General Eurico Caspar Dutra had offered his services to President Getulio Vargas as commander of the force...
...world utilities without rivals, and some regulation of them in the world interest would seem in order. Good communications throughout Latin America, for example, are still a Pan-American dream, in part because the press cable rate from New York to Buenos Aires is 5? a word, that from Rio de Janeiro to Buenos Aires 14½? a word...