Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...retained some of the outlying air bases, pointing out that though the fighting is over, the peace treaties have not been signed. Panama's President Enrique A. Jiménez has indicated that he understands the problem. But some Panamanians are piqued by the fact that at Rio Hato (the biggest field, which lies astride the lonely transisthmian highway), they have to stop their cars whenever a U.S. plane buzzes in or out, and wait for U.S. MPs to give them permission to drive...
...highlighted by last week's nationwide election in Brazil. Some five million Brazilians voted for governors, local legislators, and a third senator for each of Brazil's 20 states and the Federal District. Cariocas voted (for the first time in a dozen years) for 50 Rio de Janeiro municipal councilmen. The chief parties were: the Social Democratic Party (of President Eurico Caspar Dutra); the Labor Party (bossed by ex-President Getulio Vargas); the Communist Party; and the National Democratic Union (which is against the Government, the Communists and Vargas). The most sensational aspect of the election...
Landslide in Rio. In some places the Communists put up their own candidates; in others they threw their support to congenial candidates of other parties. Their most impressive successes were in Sao Paulo, Brazil's richest industrial state, where they piled up a winning majority for Communist-Progressive fusion candidate Ademar Barros; in Recife (capital of Pernambuco State), where they gained a huge majority; in Rio de Janeiro, where, in a landslide, they elected a still unreported number of councilmen. The Communists had polled about 16% of the total national vote (at least 800,000 ballots...
...Kingdom. From his headquarters in Dallas' 30-story Mercantile Bank Building, Leo Corrigan surveys a real-estate kingdom which extends from Shreveport, La. through Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio and down to the Rio Grande valley. In Dallas alone he operates 28 shopping centers, three skyscrapers, two apartment hotels, four suburban hotels and several hundred apartment houses. With his new buys, Corrigan's holdings are estimated at close to $79 million...
...immediate point he was specific; he hoped, as did Vandenberg, "to proceed with a negotiation of a mutual assistance treaty in accordance with the Act of Chapultepec at the projected Rio Conference. But we do not wish to proceed without Argentina, and neither our Ambassador nor any official of the State Department is of the opinion that Argentina has yet complied with the commitments which she as well as the other American Republics at Chapultepec agreed to carry...