Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tony Vaccaro, Associated Press correspondent, was looking forward to his trip to Rio next month with President Truman. But he did not want to take a yellow-fever shot, just the same. He had been told that shots were optional. Now, as he was shoved into the White House clinic, he cried, "I don't believe in shots!" A White House physician stared at him coldly. Vaccaro was told that the President had changed the rules; all reporters had to be immunized...
...huge circular salon that had been the Quitandinha Hotel's nightclub was draped in dark green and salmon pink. Brazilian bigwigs and tourists up from Rio crowded against the walls. Around the grey-covered horseshoe table in front of the speaker's platform, delegates to the Rio Conference fidgeted restlessly in yellow leather chairs. It was cold in the vast hotel on the mountains at Petropolis, 40-odd miles north of Rio. Furthermore, the President of Brazil was late...
Bodet was cheered from the time he ended until he had walked three-quarters of the way around the room to his seat between Bolivia and Haiti. He had said what practically every Latin delegate had on his mind. While the Rio Conference's top subject was joint defense of the hemisphere, the Latin republics, harassed by inflation and meager dollar reserves, were much more eager to talk about economics...
...Hertzog summoned his Conservatives, told them that busting his coalition would be the best way of bringing the totalitarian followers of the late Dictator Gualberto Villarroel to power. That did the trick. He reformed his Government of national unity in time for Guachalla, again Foreign Minister, to go to Rio for Bolivia. But he still had not found a place for Arze...
...dollars she has left for world trade, Great Britain yesterday imposed a tight control over the remainder of the $3,750,000,000 loan from the U.S. Nations' Assembly September 16 when the U.S. yesterday referred it to Secretary of State Marshall yesterday told the Inter-American Conference in Rio de Janeiro that "the economic rehabilitation of Europe is vital to the economy of this hemisphere...