Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opening of Lula Cardoso Ayres' one-man show went off like a high-society ball, with all of Rio's granfinos present and newsreel cameras clicking. More important, handsome Lula Ayres was clearly the best Brazilian painter to come along since Candido Portinari. He had the sophistication of Rio's salons and the simplicity of the backwoods...
...Horace's phrase on war, "matribus detestata"), Thomas Jefferson ("Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"), Abraham Lincoln ("We cannot escape history"), Epicurus, Lucretius, Democritus, Kant, Condorcet, Jeremy Bentham, Auguste Comte, Pierre Dubois, l'Abbé de Saint-Pierre, Poincaré, Ruy Barbosa and the Baron de Rio Branco (of Brazil), Ralph Waldo Emerson, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, and Bernard M. Baruch...
Deputy Edmundo Barreto Pinto will do anything for a laugh. Last week, as usual, he had Rio in stitches...
...From the Rio Grande to Cape Horn, governments pondered ways & means of increasing both industrial and agricultural output. Most of Latin America's machines are imported. Argentina excepted, Latin America imports a healthy chunk of its food supply-chief items: wheat, corn and beef. One way out of the deficiency: increase the number of skilled workers by selective immigration...
...Rio last week, Immigration Council Chairman Joāo Alberto Lins de Barros announced that Brazil was ready to take 100,000 displaced persons from Europe. Joāo Alberto had been working on the plan for months, had just visited both the U.S. and the refugee camps of Europe. If the U.N. would pay transportation costs of $400 a head, he said, Brazil would settle the refugees on its coffee and cattle lands, and would also set them to tending the nation's looms...