Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rio de Janeiro's Teatro Municipal, an audience of 3,000 saw the first U.S. ballet troupe that ever invaded South America. Tall, truculent Lincoln Kirstein, reviving his barnstorming Ballet Caravan, had assembled a company of 52, 60 crates of scenery and costumes, a repertory of 14 ballets. On opening night, Rio saw Estacion Gasolinera (by Choregrapher Lew Christenson, Composer Virgil Thomson, Painter Paul Cadmus), which the U.S. knew as Filling Station...
Broadminded, the Director of the Council of National Defense News Section took his stand in favor of letting TIME'S subscribers south of the Rio Grande get truth instead of propaganda. "My own individual judgment is that one of our greatest propaganda assets is an ability to 'take it' on the propaganda front. I would much rather see TIME cover an American strike or a White House picketing than to see the Nazis cover...
...friends below the Rio Grande must be amazed to see, in this day and age of national feeling and national propaganda, an American paper broadcasting the seamy side of its own country." These arguments posed a major issue of whether anything is to be gained from trying to conceal facts about the U.S. from friendly nations. But this big issue hardly concerns TIME'S Air-Express edition, whose primary purpose is to keep 50,000 American citizens stationed in Latin America in touch with what is going on at home...
Diamonds, essential to certain machine-tool operations, have been shipped regularly to Europe on Italy's Lati planes from Rio. Such exports are now to cease. Japan, large buyer of strategic Brazilian commodities a few months ago, can buy them no more...
This important news first became known not in Washington, but in Rio de Janeiro. It was not even acknowledged as a U.S. affair by the U.S. State Department, or by the U.S. Export Control Administration, where a staff of 350 has long been mapping a preclusive buying campaign under Brigadier General Russell L. Maxwell. No American claimed credit. But it represented some smooth, discreet work on the part of the State Department, RFC, and the No. 1 needler for economic warfare, Leon Henderson...