Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...courses have been worked out in conferences held during the week with members of the Faculty. One of the main lines the League wishes to develop is education in the affairs of Latin America. It is hoped eventually to work out an exchange system with universities in Rio and Buenos Aires...
...years has been 15,000,000,000 tons of iron ore (one of the largest known high-grade deposits in the world) pocketed away in the State of Minas Geraes. The Minas Geraes fields are within 200 miles of the coast and north of Brazil's great port, Rio de Janeiro. Coal for smelting is available in Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul. The Brazilian Government had dreamed of developing its steel industry independently, but, finding the financial burden too great, it offered the concession to the highest foreign bidder. Interest lagged except in iron-hungry Germany, where...
...Import Bank would lend Brazil $20,000,000, which with $25,000,000 to be provided by the Brazilian Government and private investors would be used to establish Brazil as an important steel producer, with smelting furnaces at the ore fields and a steel mill in the State of Rio de Janeiro. U. S. equipment and technical skill would be used, and the loan would gradually be retired when the plant began to produce...
...Chihuahua, across the Rio Grande from El Paso and San Antonio, revolt did break out on Independence Day, but it was a fizzler, not a firecracker. Lieut. Colonel Cruz Villalba, defeated Almazanista candidate for Governor, led "between 100 and 700" men into the hills in what the Government described as "a hostile attitude." The Government paid little attention at first, but two days later admitted that a large Federal force under General Antonio Guerrero had taken the field against the rebels. So rugged is the State of Chihuahua that a few well-armed men can carry on guerrilla warfare against...
Maestro Stokowski brought home 300 records which he made of South American music, among them some tunes played by Indian witch doctors. At Stokowski's request, 150 Indians were taken to Rio de Janeiro by busses, from which they emerged mother-naked. Ensued a lively discussion about whether their instruments were clothing enough. The answer was no. So Youth Orchestra members rustled up some garments...