Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside the offices of Rio's Communist Tribune-Popular, the pavement was white with paper, littered with broken desks, smashed typewriters. Just three and a half hours after the Brazilian Foreign Office announced the diplomatic break with Russia, a slug-happy gang of rowdies had broken into the Tribunals plant. They whanged sledge hammers against the presses, later smashed up the editorial offices. Though the press room is only about 300 yards from Rio's central police station, the wreckers had the place to themselves for two hours. When a squad of military police showed up, the cops...
...under the orders of the military commanders. Did that act presage an authoritarian regime? Most observers thought not. Brazil faced a dangerous situation created by its Communists in the first months of its new constitutional freedom, and felt it necessary to use stern measures to meet the threat. But Rio's sober Correio da Manha warned: ". . . Now more than ever, democrats must be vigilant in the face of the intentions and motives of the reactionaries, fascists, integralistas and remnants of [Vargas'] New State...
...Rate. At a conference of the International Air Transport Association, in Rio de Janeiro, representatives of the international airlines of 40 countries agreed to ask their governments' permission to 1) raise fares on the North Atlantic route by $25 to $350 (½? a mile) next year; 2) sell special round-trip excursion tickets at 25% above the one-way price; 3) allow 10% discounts on round trips, 90% discounts for infants who are under two years...
Before the yellow stucco house at No. 114 Rua 7 de Setembro in the dirty little town of Rio Casca in Minas Gerais State, some 8,000 people, a mosaic of the diseases of Brazil, had been softly singing the haunting hymn I Shall Be with My Mother. The faded grey shutters of the house swung open. A hush came over the malformed, the sick, the hopeful and the curious. One man fell on his knees. Behind him a weeping father supported a son on whose face was an idiot's grin...
Some of the best sights were free. At the horticultural stalls, even Texans were startled to see 13-inch avocados and twelve-inch Ponderosa lemons from the Rio Grande Valley. And, through a loan from Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, fairgoers got a look at the greatest collection of old masters ever shown in Texas (TIME, Sept. 29). On opening day, 10,000 people took in the art show...