Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...verdict constituted a first-class tactical save for Nicaragua's strong man, "Tacho" Somoza. Tough Tacho, the only Nicaraguan who could have given the go-ahead signal for the Costa Rican adventure, narrowly escaped getting his fingers burned when Costa Rica invoked the Treaty of Rio de Janeiro (for hemisphere defense...
...painter, and so recognized abroad; he is also an energetic Communist. Before Communism was outlawed in Brazil, Portinari once ran for Senator, almost made it with 300,000 votes. Nowadays Portinari lives with his wife and son in a comfortable house on the hillside overlooking Rio de Janeiro, but he has never allowed himself to forget or to lose touch with the back-country poverty he grew up in (he was one of twelve children in an immigrant Italian family of coffee workers...
Meanwhile, the Council of the Organization of American States had met in an emergency session to consider the invasion of Costa Rica. Daniels was the U.S. representative. He dragged his feet until convinced that enthusiasm for the newly ratified Rio pact was general and genuine...
...Washington, Costa Rica promptly invoked the newly ratified .Treaty of Rio de Janeiro (for hemisphere defense), and presented its case at a special meeting of the Organization of American States. Nobody needed to be told that if the Costa Rican trouble dragged on, it might easily develop into a general Caribbean conflict...
...Manhattan's J. P. Morgan & Co. Inc. last week trooped a bunch of happy Texans. There they put the final seal on the biggest private deal in the history of natural gas: the financing of a new $193 million pipeline to pump gas from Hidalgo County, on the Rio Grande, to Manhattan's 132nd Street...