Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rio de Janeiro last month, Sumner Welles told Latin Americans they would get such things as autos, tires, refrigerators -all the shiny gadgets and machines the U.S. has given up for the duration. The U.S. will keep 135,000 cars for official use. Another 14,580 have already been licensed for export. To Latin America some of the rest will go as needed...
After Brazil stopped publication of foreign-language newspapers last summer, censorship gradually became lighter. Last month's conference at Rio saw the end of censorship in practice as press and censors staged a love feast. The D.I.P. wined & dined visiting newsmen, cut not a single word of their tall stacks of copy...
Brazil's neutrality faded into history when 19 American republics broke with the Axis. Brazilian censorship did not survive its cause. Last fortnight's decision did much to make Rio de Janeiro the news capital of an increasingly newsworthy continent...
Died. Epitacio Pessôa, 76, onetime President of Brazil (1919-22), justice of the Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague (1924-30); in Rio de Janeiro...
Cartographers last week were busy inking the last boundary on the map of South America. The Rio de Janeiro Conference had accomplished what 113 years of fighting and attempted arbitration had not-a settlement of the old border dispute between Ecuador and Peru...