Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Working the Mine. At Allied urging, Dictator Getulio Vargas nationalized both the mountain and the rickety, narrow-gauge railway that leads to the port of Vitoria, 375 twisting, malarial miles away. When the Rio Doce Valley Co. was formed to administer the entire property the government and private investors subscribed to its $15 million capitalization and the U.S. Export-Import Bank chipped in $19 million more...
...compact hematite," red as rust and heavy to the hand-and the best ore there is. Below were huge deposits of "Canga" (54-62% iron) and soft "Itabarite" "(45-52%). After the tests, the work went ahead faster than ever. Though mechanization was by no means complete, Rio Doce was showing results. Last year, 700-odd Brazilian miners, with the help of two U.S. superintendents, dug out 177,000 metric tons of ore, sold it to Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. at a profit...
...Panama, 1939; Havana, 1940; Rio de Janeiro, 1942; Chapultepec (Mexico), 1945, and Quitan-dinha (Brazil...
...House has somehow acquired a Rio Grande reputation, perhaps originated in the interest of the genial Housemaster Clarence H. Haring '07, Bliss Professor of Latin American History, who at one time collected South Americans with data on the Spanish colonization of Peru...
...Rio, the oil diplomats of Jersey Standard, Shell and Texaco were anxiously waiting for Congress to write a law that would give them a freer hand in production, refining and distribution. Always before, the government had felt that Brazilians should control sales in Brazil. Now, with Dutra looking their way, the companies might get a law to their liking...