Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unofficial tallies were finished in midweek he held a 362-vote advantage. But in the days that followed, corrected totals were substituted for hurried, early vote counts. Stevenson's lead dwindled. At week's end Johnson was 162 votes ahead, and nobody from the Panhandle to the Rio Grande could guess who was finally going...
Other Towns. The story of Cametá can be repeated in 89 other towns and villages in the green sweep of the Amazon Valley, and 81 more in the Rio Doce Valley far to the south. SESP has built and staffed three fine hospitals and Brazil's best nursing school. It has also built 42 health posts, 14,000 privies, and a dike at Belem that has reclaimed 5,000 acres of land from the sea. Over a two-year period in the Amazon, SESP doctors have made 297,000 medical examinations, 143,000 laboratory examinations, administered...
...outgrowth of the wartime U.S. interest in the Amazon's rubber and the Rio Doce's iron and mica, SESP is run jointly by the Brazilian Ministry of Health & Education and the U.S. State Department's Institute of Inter-American Affairs. It is jointly headed by Brazil's curt, round-faced Dr. Marcolino Candau, 37, a Johns-Hopkins-trained carioca, and by IIAA's quietly competent Dr. Eugene Campbell, 41, also a Hopkins product...
...oppose SESP. This week the finance committee of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies meets to debate the Health Ministry's 1949 budget, which includes 40 million cruzeiros ($2,000,000) for SESP. The SESP item is almost certain to be un touched. Too many Brazilians agree with Rio Physician Dr. Kenneth Waddell: "The only possible criticism of SESP is that there is not enough...
Along the silt-yellow Rio Magdalena the talk was of hard times. "There's not enough water, not even for alligators if there were any," said one dark-skinned boga de agua dulce (freshwater sailor) squatting idly on a pier. "They hunted alligators to death," remarked another, "and now the ghosts are cursing this river...