Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME correspondents on five continents worked with the editors on this week's Background for Peace. Each interviewed scores of people: small shopkeepers in Mexico, coolies in the fields around Chungking, businessmen in Rio, ranchers in Australia, men and women in London pubs, U.S. war-workers and farmers and doctors and retailers, asking, "What do you want in your postwar world?" And the answers, as you will see, came with a curious, simple dignity and consistency...
...twice its present size, that a second huge air terminal is now on the drawing boards. St. Louis' aviation boom was touched off late last year when the U.S. economic mission to Brazil (TIME, Dec. 7) recommended it as the terminal for a straight-line air route from Rio de Janeiro via Miami and Birmingham...
ENOUGH FRONTIERS. In Australia, Canada and South America government commissions are laying plans for the immigration of millions of new settlers. Fifteen thousand workers have moved into the Amazon country. Engineers are exploring the water route from the Rio Negro to the Orinoco. Bulldozers have shoved a 1,671-mile road to Alaska, while the U.S. and Canada discuss joint development of the newly opened territory...
...South and Central America live a considerable number of refugees from Nazi-occupied countries who would be glad to work for Uncle Sam. All those living at present south of the Rio Grande, who had to flee their native countries, will be forever grateful to the Latin American nations for the kind and generous hospitality they are receiving. The majority of these people, however, having families and relatives in the U.S., will try to join their relations as soon as the war is over. Why not let them now prove their eagerness to help...
...TIME correspondents in Cairo, London, Washington, Chungking, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Boston, Mexico City, Algiers, Buenos Aires, Poona, Ankara, New Orleans, Rio de Janeiro, Ottawa, Detroit, San Francisco, Atlanta, the Gold Coast, Chicago, Honolulu, Dublin, Seattle, New Delhi, Anchorage, Johannesburg; and with U.S. Navy task forces and Army expeditionary forces...