Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Jim struck Rio, its stores were all called magasins, catered to the self-conscious trade. And as in Manhattan when John Wanamaker moved there in 1896, Rio shoppers in 1929 rarely saw price tags; they were accustomed to haggling. Jim called his company Lojas Americanas be cause loja means shop in Portuguese. He opened it on June 1, 1929. Opening-hour gawkers timidly approached the unfamiliar narrow counters, laden with cheap trinkets, household goods, gewgaws. Prices were marked, and signs said "Look What One Milreis Will Buy." The gawkers did not buy. Then, one and a half hours after...
...first whiff of Brazil while on vacation from the Woolworth store he managed in Atlantic City. Back in the States, he continued to dream of Rio de Janeiro's Guanabara Bay. He also had another reverie : a chain of low-price stores in Brazil. Woolworth, he knew, would never send him there; the chain had investigated South America as a market, rejected it. Jim threw up his 15-year job, arrived in Rio on Washington's birthday, 1929, with two partners...
...rest of the program. The fiction is a strange and rather original story called "Rangers of the Frontier." But don't let the name fool you; it's no conventional western. The fact is the March of Time's say-so on what's up south of the Rio Grande, another contribution to the general chaos and confusion that is U. S. A.'s concept of its 'good neighbours.' But after all, if the Mexicans don't seem to have a very clear idea of what they're doing, how can the March of Time...
Though he was defended by Rio's best known trial lawyer, Prestes was convicted, last week began serving a sentence of 30 more years in prison...
Mexico's press reported Almazanismo dying in a flurry of blood and violence and trickery. Four Almazanistas said they had been arrested and tortured by Federal soldiers. More Almazán followers fled out of Rio Verde and San Luis Potosi to avoid persecutions of local caciques. Señora Higinia Cedillo Gonzales, who helped her brother, General Saturnino Cedillo, revolt and tried to do the same for Almazán, was reported kidnapped or murdered. Government men ransacked the house of Almazán's Provisional President General Hector F. Lopez...